What can the Australian Government do to alleviate the effects of the drought on rural communities and employment?
The Government must ensure money keeps flowing through rural communities to enable them to survive the drought. This can be done in the form of short-term assistance into farm households and through business assistance, to help facilitate a recovery when the drought breaks. The delays in getting Commonwealth funding to areas in crisis has been unacceptable, and potentially ruinous to farmers and surrounding communities in the hardest hit areas. The Commonwealth must speed up the assessment of drought applications and help farmers develop strategies to build their capacity to better manage future droughts, based on a risk management philosophy like that which underpinned Labor’s national drought policy in the early 1990s. Labor Party How can rank and file ALP members now participate more effectively in the ALP as a result of the National Rules Conference changes? The ALP Special National Rules Conference demonstrated the party s commitment to be more open, inclusive and honest. The conf
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