David and Kathleen Johnston and their daughter Kacee can no longer survive farming through the drought without water, and they believe the NSW Government is to blame.
The Johnston family’s farm is one of the last remaining dairy farms in the region around Deniliquin in southern New South Wales, but it won’t be a dairy farm for much longer, after the family made the difficult decision to sell their herd and get out of dairy farming, with drought and zero allocation of irrigation water making it too difficult to go on.
Peter Glowacki was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis three years ago. The avid fisherman, living in Tasmania’s Central Highlands, is continuing to fish, getting into his boat using his own two legs, but he is ready for the day when that won’t be possible.
It’s harvest time at Andrew and Joy Hall’s chestnut orchard in Victoria’s north-east. With 6,500 trees to be picked, a machine harvester helps out the team of pickers, but it’s still a big job and not without complications.
For Laurie Austin breeding and showing chickens is a labour of love and he’s been doing it for the best part of 40 years. Now he is being recognised for his work with a testimonial for his service to the poultry community.
Source: abc.net.au
