His anger comes off the back of another committee being formed this week, aptly titled the Drought Working Group.

"After seven years of drought policy failure, Minister David Littleproud has a new formula: form another committee, and then demonise and blame the states," the Shadow Agriculture Minister said.

"We've had a drought summit, a drought coordinator, a drought envoy, a drought task force and now we're going to have a new Drought Working Group.

"It's a drought talkfest."

Mr Fitzgibbon said that after Tuesday's AgMin meeting of agriculture ministers in Moree, Minister Littleproud's response was to claim that drought will become a "standing item on the Ministerial Council agenda".

"One of the first callous acts of the Abbott/Joyce government in December, 2013, was to abolish the COAG committee charged with drought policy reform," he explained.

"The rest is history and our farmers and drought-ravaged rural communities are still paying the price.

"The Minister's claim that 'Under the Constitution and other agreements, each level of government has designated areas to give support to farmers" is a desperate stretch of the truth."

He said farmers and drought-affected rural communities were right to be angered by the Morrison government's inaction and, while the states must do their best, they were rightly angry, too.

"The Minister's attempt to compare the expenditures of each of the states lacks statistical rigour," Mr Fitzgibbon added.

"It's like comparing apples with oranges."