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New Rural Financial Counsellors appointed to meet client demand

4th February 2009

The Murray Mallee service has recently appointed George Stone and Sue Rudd to work part time out of the Mildura office and Teresa O'Brien is to work full time at the Swan Hill office. Graeme Loison, Executive Officer said the new counsellors would help to ease the work load of the entire team at a time when client demand remains high. With on going drought, water allocation restrictions and industry difficulties, particularly for wine grape growers, it is not expected that client needs will diminish in the short term. We thought client numbers may have peaked after steady increases in recent years, but new clients continue to come forward, especially now that the Small Block Irrigator Exit Grant package is available for Victorian and NSW irrigators.