Posts tagged "drought"

Australia is now subject to an El Niño climate event, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) says, boosting the likelihood of warmer and drier conditions than average in the coming months.

Now is the time for affected business to not just rebuild, but to reflect on how they can build back better and stronger than before.

Grace Brennan, founder of the #buyfromthebush campaign to help promote drought-stricken businesses, has become the first woman from regional Australia to deliver the Australia Day address.

Morrison's drought relief package is a quick fix to a political problem that fails to consider the emerging economics of drought.

The NSW government yesterday urged metropolitan Christmas shoppers to buy from drought-affected regional retailers, launching an online Buy Regional hub.

The gap between regional and metropolitan businesses continues to grow, with new research suggesting many firms are pessimistic about the months ahead.

Small businesses and farmers affected by the drought are being offered increased support from a new taskforce being set up by the federal government.

Hundreds of Australian pubs across the country have banded together to help drought-stricken farmers through the 'Parma for a Farmer' campaign.

  Major supermarkets such as Coles and Woolworths should be doing more to support drought-hit farmers, according to a cattle producer from …

The Productivity Commission has called for small business drought assistance to be scrapped and wants the Government to stop subsidising pre…