Farmers don’t trust Australian leaders to protect them during crisis
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Farmers don’t trust Australian leaders to protect them during crisis

March 31, 2026
Sky News Australia
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Sheep Farmer Fiona Aveyard raises concerns about risk security for farmers amid the Middle East conflict and fuel shortage. “It technically doesn’t make any difference to primary producers and farmers because we already get a fuel tax credit for the exercise,” Ms Aveyard told Sky News Australia. “This just brings in another layer of risk, then on top of that, it’s the uncertainty around how we can rely on our leaders.

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“In the first few weeks of this, we were very much getting the message there’s no problems there, nothing to see here, when clearly, we were seeing different scenarios out here in the west.”

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