A fifth-generation farmer from Alectown, near Parkes, has described climate change as "scary" and "real" and would like to see the Australian government appoint a dedicated minister to help tackle the issue.
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| More needs to be done: Alectown farmer Neil Westcott walking across his failed canola crop in 2018. Since 1993 he said they have lost on average about three millimetres of rain per year. |
Neil Westcott, 59, grows canola, wheat and barley on his central west, NSW property and has been working on the land since 1978.
Mr Westcott is frustrated with Australia's leadership on climate change and would love the government to go that little bit further and dedicate a climate change minister within cabinet.
"Every policy should have an element of climate change within it," he said.
Read the Western Magazine story by Taylor Jurd - “Neil Westcott, Parkes says climate change data is ‘real’."
