Farmers and local residents who want to have their issues heard are invited to a forum with radio star Alan Jones at the Commercial Hotel in Dubbo on Monday from 5pm.
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Mr Jones is visiting the city for three days next week and will be broadcasting his top-rating breakfast show live from the Dubbo RSL Club and Harvey Norman.
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Radio icon Alan Jones says he wants to give farmers a voice and remind them they're not forgotten when he broadcasts his top-rating breakfast show from Western NSW next week.
"At Dubbo and Bourke we'll be having what you might call a forum, inviting people in," Mr Jones told Australian Community Media.
"We'll pay for some drinks and food... and then I want to hear from them [local community members]," he said.
"I've been through drought, my parents had a farm in Western Queensland and I've been through circumstances such as this which were absolutely dreadful.
"These things are etched in your mind forever and I know what these people are going through."
In a bid to help farmers, the radio king said he would continue to use his profile to advocate for the establishment of a new government loan scheme which would operate similar to the higher education loan program (HELP) and allow farmers to pay back what they owed as their incomes increased.
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Farmers found it hard to get access to government support because of complicated eligibility criteria and paperwork, according to Mr Jones.
"It's [the government's latest loan program] full of bureaucratic jargon, its been written by bureaucrats... no one will sign up for a loan, mark my words," he said.
"It's as if they don't want you to... is there an agenda here? There may be, well if there is tell us.
"Do you want to get rid of the farmers? Do you want the farmers to die? Are we waiting for China to move in and buy all the farms? Is that what they want? I don't know."
Mr Jones called on the government to declare the drought a national disaster so members of the armed forces could be deployed to help farmers transport fodder.
Comments from fire chiefs linking recent weather conditions to climate change were an "absolute joke" and they should "stick to what they know", he said.
