{"id":537,"date":"2009-02-17T03:58:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T03:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2009\/02\/17\/minister-pushed-to-extend-drought-assistance-to-lv\/"},"modified":"2009-02-17T03:58:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T03:58:27","slug":"minister-pushed-to-extend-drought-assistance-to-lv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/minister-pushed-to-extend-drought-assistance-to-lv\/","title":{"rendered":"MINISTER PUSHED TO EXTEND DROUGHT ASSISTANCE TO LV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>February 17, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The campaign to extend Exceptional Circumstances (EC) drought assistance to the Latrobe Valley has taken a step forward, with news that the State and Federal Agriculture Ministers will fly in for a personal inspection this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has been actively lobbying both governments to provide drought assistance to farmers in Glengarry, Yinnar, Callignee, Traralgon South and surrounding districts.<\/p>\n<p>Latrobe Valley farmers were excluded from drought assistance when the State Government reviewed boundaries late last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI invited the Federal Agriculture Minister to come and meet with the local farmers and gain a first hand understanding of the conditions they are facing,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of these farmers were able to access drought assistance last year and had their payments cut off late last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m told that conditions are worse now than they were when the area qualified for EC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously conditions have deteriorated further with many farmers losing pastures as a result of the bushfires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester called on the State and Federal Agriculture Ministers to support his request for EC payments to Latrobe Valley farmers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if it is just for 12 months, to provide some relief while our local farmers get back on their feet,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that they are coming here to the Latrobe Valley tomorrow and Thursday to review the conditions provides us with some hope that the previous decision will be reversed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>February 17, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The campaign to extend Exceptional Circumstances (EC) drought assistance to the Latrobe Valley has taken a step forward, with news that the State and Federal Agriculture Ministers will fly in for a personal inspection this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has been actively lobbying both governments to provide drought assistance to farmers in Glengarry, Yinnar, Callignee, Traralgon South and surrounding districts.<\/p>\n<p>Latrobe Valley farmers were excluded from drought assistance when the State Government reviewed boundaries late last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}