Article 3X2NK Drought funding gets $1.8bn government boost

Drought funding gets $1.8bn government boost

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Australian Associated Press
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Sixty affected councils across Queensland and NSW to be handed $1m each

Communities reeling from Australia's worst drought in more than 50 years will be given extra funding to help deal with the dry conditions in their own way.

Sixty drought-affected councils across western Queensland and New South Wales will be handed $1m each by the federal government to spend on anything from trucking in drinking water to building new community facilities.

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