Calls for Victoria to follow NSW lead on joint drought funding

Andrew Miller
Updated January 23 2019 - 2:12pm, first published January 22 2019 - 3:31pm
DRY TIMES, Tom Gannon, Gippsland livestock producer, hand feeding in August, last year. Further subsidies for drought mitigation and irrigation could help some farmers, he said.
DRY TIMES, Tom Gannon, Gippsland livestock producer, hand feeding in August, last year. Further subsidies for drought mitigation and irrigation could help some farmers, he said.

A Gippsland livestock producer has urged the Victorian government to join NSW in taking up an offer of more Federal drought funding .

Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller

Journalist

I'm a general reporter with Stock & Land, with a special interest in irrigation issues. I completed my cadetship, with the Age, in 1980. Over my career, I've worked for ABC radio news (Mt Isa, Qld) and at provincial and suburban newspapers.

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