The Daily Examiner, 29 January 2020:
Yes, the Clarence Valley has been 100% drought affected with most of the land officially in either the Drought or Severe Drought categories.
This along with the bushfires has makes 2019-20 a horror year for farmers and graziers.
So this federal government grant is most welcome.
However, Clarence Valley local government area - like Lismore and Richmond Valley - only became eligible when criteria for assistance was changed after it was discovered that, just an in the 'sports rorts affair', there had been an apparent manipulation of a grant programme's funding allocations just prior to the May 2019 federal election - when of the 14 councils announced eligible as a Coalition election commitment 13 were in Coalition-held electorates and just one was not as it was held by an Independent.
The plus for Nationals MP for Page, Kevin Hogan, is that now instead of one council in his electorate being given a Drought Communities Programme grant, there are now
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