Local Member Mia Davies MLA has welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to double funding to a program helping Central Wheatbelt farmers, pastoralists and horticulturalists mitigate the effects of drought. Ms Davies said an extra $50 million for the On-Farm Emergency Water Infrastructure Rebate Scheme would allow producers who missed out on rebates to reapply before…
The Nationals WA have lashed out at the State Labor Government’s WA Recovery Plan for treating agriculture as an afterthought. Member for Roe, Peter Rundle, said after suffering the lowest rainfall in recorded history, farmers and communities in the Great Southern were doing it tough, and called on the State Government to provide better support…
The Nationals WA have called on the Federal Government to establish a research and innovation hub in Western Australia to help farmers and regional communities become more drought prepared. Last week the Federal Government announced two Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hubs would be established in regional Australia, funded by $20.3 million from the Future…
The Nationals WA Member for Mining and Pastoral Region Jacqui Boydell has welcomed correspondence from the Minister for Lands, Hon Ben Wyatt indicating the possibility of rates and rent relief to pastoralists facing financial ruin after years of adverse conditions on the land. Last year the Labor Government raised pastoralists’ rents by as much as…
The Nationals WA Deputy Leader Jacqui Boydell has called on the Labor Government to heed the call to provide relief from rent payments and shire rates for drought-affected pastoralists. Ms Boydell said much-needed Federal drought assistance was being kept from the reach of pastoralists in the Mining and Pastoral Region because of the technicalities involved…
The Minister for Water continues to demonstrate his complete lack of common sense, refusing to allow access to a dam for fear it will become empty of water. Member for the Agricultural Region Colin de Grussa continued questioning the Minister in Parliament this week to ascertain why the Government continued to lock out desperate farmers…
The McGowan Labor Government is failing pastoralists, farmers and regional communities battling drought across the State. Nationals WA Leader Mia Davies, who joined Member for North West Central Vince Catania and Federal Drought Minister David Littleproud for community meetings in Meekatharra and Kalgoorlie-Boulder, said the Minister’s visit was welcomed and appreciated as the pastoralists and…
Federal Minister for Drought David Littleproud has accepted an invitation from The Nationals WA to attend a crisis meeting of farmers and growers in Kalgoorlie later this month. Member for North West Central Vince Catania was in Canberra late last week and updated the Minister on the dry conditions impacting agriculture across the State. “Minister…
The Nationals WA are calling on the State Government to step in and ease the pressure on pastoral businesses grappling with a difficult dry season and imminent lease hikes in the State’s north. Water spokesperson Jacqui Boydell said an abnormally dry season in the Pilbara and Kimberley coupled with increasing pastoral lease rates had left…