Senate debates

Monday, 11 November 2019

Questions without Notice

Drought Communities Program

2:44 pm

Photo of Bridget McKenzieBridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

I was not in the room, Senator Wong, through you, Mr President, to actually have an appreciation of that. But I think the Senate knows that when I say I'm going to get back to you I always do. The methodology, as I've outlined, takes into account agricultural employment and also rainfall data. It's an incredibly popular program. We gave those 122 councils who were already recipients of Drought Communities Program funding last week an additional amount of money— (Time expired)

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