NSW Budget drought spend: $250m into Farm Innovation Fund, mental health, new Doppler radars

Alex Druce
Updated June 13 2018 - 9:57am, first published 9:52am
Sheep, north of Goulburn, NSW, eating feed as the dry weather bites. Photo: Janie Barrett
Sheep, north of Goulburn, NSW, eating feed as the dry weather bites. Photo: Janie Barrett

THERE’LL be three new Doppler weather radars for western NSW in Tuesday’s state budget – while the popular Farm Innovation Fund will also be topped to the brim and expanded to fodder and grain transport as part of a $279 million government spend on drought. 

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Alex Druce

Alex Druce

Senior Journalist

Politics and rural issues journo in Sydney. Give me a yell at adruce@fairfaxmedia.com.au

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