Farmers are being stymied in their efforts to repair the damage caused by the Tingha fires by a "farcical" bureaucratic maze of department policies.
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Member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall said three government-owned land-managing entities tied farmers into knots with three different approaches and policies for how they treat agricultural neighbors; the forestry corporation of NSW, NSW national parks and the department managing other types of crown lands.
In some cases they can even prevent a farmer rebuilding a fence where one used to be, insisting on a 20 metre setback from their land.
"They can try, yes, they can try. They can't legally, because if that's the surveyed boundary that's legally where the fence is supposed to go, but they can apply pressure to try to force you to move that fence back onto your property."
He said the best behaved has been National Parks, even providing fencing materials for drought-stricken, burnt-out farmers.
"I've dealt with flooding situations before - this is the first time as a local MP I've dealt with a fire on a large scale so you'd think if you were dealing with state forests or national parks or crown lands that they'd all basically have the same methods and same dealings with landholders. But they've all had very different attitudes and different policies."
Some farmers even have to deal with all three organs of state. He estimates that 20 farmers are effected in total.
Mr Marshall took Niall Blair the Minister for Primary Industries to Tingha on Monday to see the damage and to start the process to create a more effective approach.
"Hopefully if the government is returned I will have his voice adding to mine and the community's to say we've got to sort this mess out.
"To not only help these people but there's going to be another one of these catastrophic fire events. It will happen.
"We've got to sort this out so other people don't go through this same bureaucratic quagmire.
He said many farmers don't know they have to take specific insurance for fencing.