DEAR News Of The Area,

THE recent Federal Election has highlighted a divide between regional Australia and metropolitan Australia on the issue of climate change.

This election was won by the Labor Party on this divisive issue.

However, interestingly, the huge move towards climate change occurred in the metropolitan city seats and not in the regional seats, where the National Party ‘climate change deniers’ were voted back in in their electorates.

This trend is difficult to understand when it is the regional constituents who suffer most from global warming.

These are the farmers who endure severe financial loss from droughts and these are the communities who suffer significantly from the devastation and loss from bushfires and floods.

While the NewsCorp media would like to label metropolitan voters as uninformed, ignorant and gullible on this issue, it is an undeniable fact that the smartest, most educated and wealthiest voters live in what were formally the bluest of blue ribbon Liberal electorates and this is where the biggest swings occurred.

The voters in these seats have emphatically shown by voting for Independents that they are fed up with the partisan bastardry of the climate wars of the last ten years.

Cheryl Cooper in her letter last week in this newspaper, entitled ‘Cowper the Winner (p21, Friday May 27 Edition), stated that the “people of Cowper have won”.

Have we?

We have re-elected the National Party incumbent, a member of a party that is in denial of climate change and a party that we expect will be a major obstacle to the Albanese Labor Government with regard to their agenda to constructively address this destructive global condition.

Marlene Griffin, in her letter in the same edition, ‘Australia has decided’, has more perceptively stated ”so we in Cowper are sadly not standing alongside the ‘winning team’ who will be setting the agenda for the future”.

Fortunately, after experiencing seven years of the hottest years on record and regular natural disasters, Australia, largely, has finally woken up to the catastrophic effects of global warming, but unfortunately we still have a significant obstructionist element in our Parliament who will be intent on continuing the ‘Climate Wars’.

Regards,
Pieter DE VISSER,
Korora.