He said farmers were interested in low-interest loans and freight subsidies, but action was also needed to deal with threats from kangaroos and wild dogs.
Mr Abbott said the government's "significant announcement" would include short and medium-term assistance.
"They don't want handouts, they don't want welfare," Mr Abbott said.
"They want to be able to get on with the job - they don't want government to run their businesses." more
What stupendous hypocrisy from Abbott! Utterly mind boggling. Apparently giving an assistance package to manufacturing is "corporate welfare", but giving it to farmers is "getting on with the job"?
I grew up on a farm and spent most of my life since then in the city. I've worked for a few companies that've gone under over the years, and there was no gov assistance available to try and keep afloat an unsustainable or failing business. Yet at the same time you have these farmers trying to farm fuckin desert, set themselves up for a loan where they have to get a crop happening every year, and when it all goes pear shaped it's off to the gov for another handout. Newsflash..... don't try and farm fuckin desert!
Of course I write with tongue in cheek :) Of course the farmers need assistance, but it's completely hypocritical to chose one industry that will get assistance when another industry doesn't. How is that fair?
If Abbott treated the farmers like he did the car industry, he'd of denied them any assistance at all. Told them that it's not the drought that's the problem but the workers on their farm getting paid too much. Hockey would have stood in parliament daring the farmers to walk off the land. The farms would've closed and returned to desert and we'd be importing instead of growing here.
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