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Grattan on Friday: Storm clouds avoid the bush, darken over the economy

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Grattan on Friday: Storm clouds avoid the bush, darken over the economyNational Farmers' Federation president Fiona Simson says she doesn't think the government has a drought policy.Shutterstock

Government sources insist shock jock Alan Jones didn’t drive Thursday’s announcement of a cash payment to drought-striken farmers about to be turfed off their household support because they’d reached the four...

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