Jess Walsh (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Water Resources, Drought, Rural Finance, Natural Disaster and Emergency Management, Senator McKenzie. Departmental officials told estimates on 21 October that Moira Shire met the rainfall threshold but missed the employment threshold by 0.1 per cent for the Drought Communities Program. Ten days later, Nationals MP for Nicholls, Damian Drum, announced that Minister Littleproud has used ministerial discretion to declare the shire eligible. Why did the people of Moira find out last night that they are in fact still not eligible?