Perin Davey

The federal government announced a $14.5 million co-contribution towards the facility, with SunRice matching the government's funding.

However, Executive Director of the organization, Perin Davey, says anything that helps SunRice's bottom line will hopefully help stabilize the business.

I would dearly like to see enough rice production to reinforce the need to continue to have our healthy, two healthy SunRice processing mills operating in the Riverina.

Turning to sports, and the Meraki Football Club has paid tribute to senior captain Nathan Hicks, who has played his last game with the Blues.