A top government adviser has blasted Australia's response to drought, saying billions of dollars have been wasted in taxpayer-funded rescue packages that do not help farmers.
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| Prime Minister Scott Morrison prepares to board his plane following a regional drought tour at Quilpie in Queensland. |
In a warning to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who is drawing up a new response to the worsening disaster, Productivity Commission chairman Peter Harris said the extra help would be "condemned to failure" if policy mistakes of the past were repeated.
Mr Harris pointed to government subsidies that had actually led to higher freight and feed costs, which quickly earned a stinging rebuke from the government’s new drought envoy, the former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce.
Read Eryk Bagshaw’s story from The Age - “Top government adviser blasts Australia's flawed financial response to drought.”
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