Australia’s Regional New South Wales Gets Drought Relief Package

This picture taken on September 27, 2018 shows a kangaroo hopping across the road outside the town of Booligal in western New South Wales. PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images

The New South Wales government says A$355 million in next week’s state budget will help keep drought-stricken communities working as the big dry continues to bite into farm-driven local economies.

Some $170 million will go towards a “drought infrastructure package” to fund critical water and infrastructure projects in the bush in a bid to keep money flowing into towns, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on June 11.