Sam Sleigh

@AlboMP @JEChalmers Chris Bowen, just got back into Griffith after attending the Riverina Field Days, which by the way was attended by @PaulineHansonOz which was great to see her out supporting us, no other party representatives were in attendance to see what was happening in the real world… Go to the local BP to fuel up & they are out of Diesel. You guys are seriously going out of your way to destroy small businesses. My business is agricultural based. We have service vehicles that run on diesel. We need to be able to travel up to 200km to our farmers to service them on farm. We are about to go into rice harvest, sowing & cotton harvest. How the hell am I supposed to run a business if we can’t service our customers. Throw in the extremely high price of fert, high chem prices, low water allocations & high price of temp water, increasing interest rates, low commodity prices & until yesterday the absence of significant rainfall we are struggling to survive. Our customers confidence is underwhelming & it is affecting their decision making when it comes to updating equipment, which we need to be selling to survive. 2024 most of area was hit hard with frost, 2025 the majority of our area had less than 1/2 our yearly rainfall so we are in a real predicament, farmers & businesses cash flow are at real lows. You guys still expect me to pay my PAYG & BAS on time no matter the stresses that our businesses are going through. We need leadership. We need action. We need people to invest back in our country, we have the raw materials & people to do it, we can produce almost everything we need to be self sustainable. We need people who understand what’s going on in the real world of the people who produce the food & fibre we ALL need. What are you going to do about it??….. @D_LittleproudMP @AngusTaylorMP @TheTodayShow #bloodyuseless