Farmers stand on the front line, but are being duped

Farmers are among the first to deal with the rigours of climate change.

Farmers are on the climate change front line.

The question is being asked as to why the Australian Government appears to be treating the critical aspect of our community with such disrespect.

The question has been asked in a Weekly Times story headed: “Farmers taken for a ride on carbon planning”.

Farmers are reliant on the weather, so the question is asked why the Government think it could get away with saying we should do nothing to cut pollution that is changing the weather upon which they are so dependent?

Writing in the Weekly Times, the Australian Conservation Foundation’s senior economists, Dugald Murray, who argued the where climate change is concerned, your interest, the national interest and global interests are one and same.