Richard DiNatale 'rounds' on Barnaby Joyce for 'selling-out'

Greens leader Richard DiNatale
 on the Liverpool Plains.

The Greens have marched into the Nationals heartland of rural NSW and they are gunning for top dog Barnaby Joyce, accusing the "sell-out" Deputy Prime Minister of forsaking the interests of farmers by denying climate change.

Greens leader Richard Di Natale has also questioned the sincerity of Mr Joyce's weekend rumination that "climate change might really be happening" and he believes rural communities, on the "frontline" of climate change, are disillusioned with the regional party's history on the issue.

Speaking with Fairfax Media from the Liverpool Plains leg of a week-long country tour, Senator Di Natale said: "It's very hard to find somebody who has good things to say about the National Party on the issue of global warming.

"I speak to farmers often about the issue of global warming and there are very few who don't accept the science and that it is a serious threat."

Read Fergus Hunter’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Election 2016: Richard Di Natale rounds on 'dinosaur' climate denier Joyce.”