Drought-stricken farmers desperate for a further cash injection to keep businesses alive will have to wait a little longer as the Morrison government weighs its next move.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg met farming families in northern NSW on Thursday, casting his eye over a herd of cattle in a dusty paddock.
"This is a crisis and as one family member said to me before, this is the community's GFC plus some," he told reporters near Inverell.