And he's apparently helping them get the message.
My country cousins tell me "drought advisors", dispatched from city office jobs and with no knowledge of farming, are touring farming districts and telling farmers "sell your stock, sell your machinery, sell your tractors, sell your land".
This is the 21st century version of what we used to know as Drought Assistance Programs.
Meanwhile graziers from Queensland to Victoria watch their stock slowly starve with feed difficult to find and not much of a market to sell into. Croppers watch little green shoots cruelly coaxed into poking their heads up wither away without follow up rain.
