Climate change making drought worse, says farmers federation chief

Fiona Simson says people have been tiptoeing around the subject for too long and it is time for a national strategy

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.

“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.

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