State finally stirs over Gippsland drought
THE Victorian Government is scrambling to knock together last-minute drought measures to support Gippsland farmers.
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Farmers’ drought needs ‘at crisis point’
Rate relief and help with ongoing farm costs must be addressed in any support package for drought-ravaged communities, according to Victorian Farmers’ Federation boss David Jochinke.
Welfare no solution for drought-affected farmers
More than 250 Gippsland farming families are accessing dole-like government payments but hundreds more are either not eligible or are refusing to take “hand-outs” as they battle to keep their farms as calls for more greater help grow louder.
Our farmers’ battle for survival laid bare
There’s desperation in drought-ravaged parts of Victoria. These heartbreaking images by photographer Jake Nowakowski reveal what farmers in the state’s southeast are struggling with.
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Six-year rain event expected
VICTORIA is due for a bucketing in the biggest downpour in six years with up to 100mm of rain expected to fall over the next four days.
Its raining, its pouring
IT’S now pouring in the north of South Australia as what is tipped to be the heaviest rainfall event in 30 years begins in earnest.
South east to cop a drenching
AREAS suffering drought and bushfires in south-eastern Australia will cop a drenching.
Mixed rainfall levels for Dec
RAINFALL levels for December were mixed across Victoria with some relief on the east coast but little in the south.
2014 delivers a sizzler
LAST year was Australia’s third-hottest on record, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
Perth heat melts the internet
EXTREME hot weather in Perth has sent the internet into meltdown.
Huge storms headed for Outback SA
WHILE Hills residents and firefighters look forward to forecast rains later in the week, Outback South Australians could be facing a flood.
BOM’s space frontier
AUSTRALIA has struck a deal to access weather data from Japanese and Chinese satellites.
Hit and miss for rainfall
DESPITE one of the best autumns in decades, 2014 was a below-average year for rain in the southeast.
Warmer, drier start to 2015 forecast
MOST Australians can expect warmer and drier weather for the first three months of 2015.
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