Turnbull cops ICPA rebuke on education hardship help

Andrew Marshall
Updated August 6 2018 - 8:32am, first published 7:30am
A load of cottonseed or hay for hungry livestock can cost about as much as a year’s  boarding school fees.
A load of cottonseed or hay for hungry livestock can cost about as much as a year’s boarding school fees.

The drought’s eroding impact on remote farming families’ ability to keep children at boarding school or university has stirred more calls for Canberra to establish a rural hardship education fund.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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