Farmers are 'the sentinels of climate change'

Judging by reports emerging about the National Party’s wish list that Barnaby Joyce has presented to Malcolm Turnbull as conditions to form a coalition with the Liberal Party, rural Australia has a lot to fear from lack of leadership on climate change.

Our nation’s farmers, being well attuned to changes in climate, are the sentinels of climate change.

Farmers are the Australians whose livelihoods are affected first, and most, by climate change.

Read the opinion piece in the Northern Daily Leader by Tamworth’s Dr Robert Gunning – “Nationals need to show leadership.”