Farmers have challenged National party claims that conditions in drought-stricken regions in eastern Australia should not be politicised by attributing them to climate change.
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| The Climate Council has identified an 11% decline in the growing-season rainfall in south-east Australia since the mid-90s. |
Farmer and former Nationals leader John Anderson said this week that while the drought was the worst he had experienced, it was not unprecedented.
He told the Financial Review farming records for his property, which had been in his family for more than a century, showed droughts of equal severity between 1902 and 1904 and again in 1940.
Read the story by Lisa Cox from The Guardian - “National party comments on drought and climate 'a disservice' to farmers.”
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