Supermarket drought help could have begun years earlier: Jack Neilson

Sally Gall
Updated August 7 2018 - 6:23pm, first published 6:00pm
In 2015, Jack Neilson, Two Rivers, Boulia began a Dollar for Drought campaign but found it difficult to enlist the help of supermarkets. Photo supplied.
In 2015, Jack Neilson, Two Rivers, Boulia began a Dollar for Drought campaign but found it difficult to enlist the help of supermarkets. Photo supplied.

Nearly three years after campaigning unsuccessfully for large supermarket chains to put donation buckets at checkouts so shoppers could contribute cash to drought affected areas, Boulia’s Jack Neilson is a little cynical of recent drought aid pledges by Coles and Woolworths.

Sally Gall

Sally Gall

Senior journalist - Queensland Country Life/North Queensland Register

Based at Blackall, CW Qld, where I've raised a family, run Merino sheep and beef cattle, and helped develop a region - its history, tourism, education and communications. Get in touch at 0427 575 955 if you've got a story idea for me.

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