Climate change making drought worse, farmers' federation chief says

The president of the National Farmers’ Federation, Fiona Simson, has declared that climate change is making drought worse in Australia and says tiptoeing around the subject does not do regional communities any good.

 National Farmers Federation president Fiona Simson has
 acknowledged Indigenous Australians as Australia’s ‘first farmers’
and called for a national strategy on drought.

“It is the effect of climate change we need to be aware of that makes the impacts of a drought even worse,” she told the National Press Club.

“As a community, we want to talk about it and the more discussions we have about and the more open people are in talking about it, then the less uncomfortable it becomes.

Read the story from The Guardian by Gabrielle Chan - “Climate change making drought worse, farmers' federation chief says.”