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| Subject: Whatever the statists touch, turns to shit: Top government adviser blasts flawed OZschwitz financial response to drought Tue Aug 28, 2018 10:04 pm | |
| 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.
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.
"It might be a complete waste of money for Mr Harris with his six-figure job, in his office in the middle of town, but the people who are actually trying to survive don't think it is a joke," Mr Joyce told Fairfax Media on Tuesday night.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/top-government-adviser-blasts-australia-s-flawed-financial-response-to-drought-20180828-p5009s.html |
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