PHOTO: Farm Angels take to Internet appealing for assistance – Image courtesy Farm Angels.
Hundreds of people have taken to social media regaling the lack of support and media attention being given to the towns and thousands of acres of farming land currently inundated with record breaking flooding in Northern and Western Queensland and NSW.
With mobs of sheep, cattle and horses being drowned or knee deep in mud, homes wet to their rooves, machinery and infrastructure collapsed and ruined, it would seem, that this would be front page news.
Country people say it isn’t, feeling a frustration and disappointment that more coverage of the disaster is not spreading awareness to metropolitan areas, leaving a total gap in understanding of the dire situation for rural and regional people…