OPINION: The government is hollowing out the bush

Updated July 3 2019 - 4:18pm, first published 4:05pm
There is a great opportunity for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to become a statesman and bring some relief to farmers. They need to rebuild communities relying on them.
There is a great opportunity for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to become a statesman and bring some relief to farmers. They need to rebuild communities relying on them.

PRIME Minister Scott Morrison attending a drought panel in Dubbo on July 18 is an opportunity to tell him farmers are running out of cash during this historically unprecedented drought. He must be told no-one wants to live in rural Australia stripped of farmers, schools, bus runs and service businesses because government policy killed it.