Statements by Members: Australian Bushfires

06 October 2020

Margaret and Simon at the Bilpin Fruit Bowl, one of the major fruitgrowers in the Hawkesbury hit by fires last summer, are worrying about whether their current crop of apples and figs will make it to be picked, because the promised federal government funding has yet to be delivered. The $120,000 is needed to net 40 acres of fruit. It's nine months since we first raised the issue with the minister, and, while the New South Wales funding to buy the netting has come and been spent, great bales are still sitting alongside the flowering trees, whe

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