About the episode
Farmers are trying to come to terms with the Victorian Government’s Emergency Services and Volunteer Fund legislation The levy increase has been reduced from 189 per cent higher, to 150 percent but that’s done nothing to placate farmers who make up most of the CFA volunteers. In what is no coincidence, the Allan Government simultaneously announced a further $16million in drought assistance. Despite having just met with the VFF the money doesn’t go to where President Brett Hosking hoped it would. It's not only farmers who are suspicious of fire services levy funding allocation. Those you assume to benefit from the legislation are equally as furious at the outcome. Peter Marshall from the United Firefighters Union. The drought is forcing farmers re going to extreme lengths to preserve their stud beef cattle, trucking them 1,500 km away for agistment in Queensland. And the regular wool report.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
