Thread by @AngelinaNic6

Letter to the Prime Minister.
Dear Mr Morrison,
Since you are now shaping up as the Prime Minister who intends to liquidate Rural Australia, here's a little something that might appeal to the former whiz-bang tourism marketing man in you.

This is a photograph of a wedding party near a drought stricken town in western NSW. It's a real wedding too, not the fake made-for-TV variety that you might have created for one if your Australian tourism campaigns when you were making them way back then.

It's a wedding held during a dreadful dust storm not long after two young people have committed their lives to each other.

Study it carefully, because these photographs of a bride and groom standing on the dusty paddocks of a former family farm remind us what our connection with the land really looks like.

According to the photographer, Jayde Cliff from Jayde Creative Co, people from local farms and communities turned up at the wedding with hope: hope that it will rain one day, hope that things will turn around - and hope they might somehow find a highway out of hell.

The photographer is a local girl who travelled home for the wedding on a farm not far from where she grew up. What she saw on that wedding weekend however horrified her. She wrote about the spirit of the people at the wedding in her poignant FB post

"They have so much hope in their hearts... and community spirit.."

And that's exactly the point, Prime Minister. You are not one of these people who chose to live and work amongst the heart of rural Australia, and you never will be.

Those of us who are part of them through history or blood or geography fully understand their toughness and ability to endure such unimaginable hardship.

These are the same qualities that the people of rural Australia famously took to the trenches, the same qualities we used to pioneer this nation, the same dogged qualities we used to make this nation great.

We know about courage and hope and try because It's bred into our blood and our bone, and it defines who the people of rural Australian really are.

The only farmers that will be left after such a brutal drought are going to be the very best,

the farmers you should be fighting to save so they can feed us in the future. And - in exactly the same way - the only livestock still left are going to be the very finest genetics, the kind that we as a nation can never afford to lose.

And yet you and your jelly-backed and poorly informed 'advisors' have apparently made the gutless decision to simply walk away because, as you said, "There's no magic wand, you can't make it rain, no need to panic, let's all just focus on the budget surplus instead .."

Well, Mr Morrison, if we were in a war I wouldn't want to have you fighting in the trenches beside me. You are much too chicken-hearted for me, Sir, as simple as that.

If you don't want to have a go, then that's your business, but you have no right to deliberately prevent our great Australian farmers from trying to have a go and find ways to survive and make it through.

Why won't you LEND our farmers the money they need to keep their stock alive? You lend it to University students as a HEC's debt and they pay you back when they graduate and get a good job.

It will rain again one day and farmers will be making money again and they can do exactly the same.

In any case, you certainly dole it out to every other shindig you can find overseas and then you distinguish yourself by giving money to the Moon or to Mars or whatever planet it was.

Whatever happened to doing the decent thing and helping your own people instead?

You and your Treasurer, Mr Frydenberg, might have turned your backs on us and left rural Australia to die, but let me assure you of this: come the next federal election every farmer in Australia will not forget how badly - how brutally - you have treated us.

We will march to the cities in our tens of thousands and we will call out Coo-ee on every street corner the same way our courageous forebears did when they walked in from the bush to enlist in WW1 - and we will, I promise you, finally settle the score.

Kind regards
Heather Pascoe
(Farmer from the Deserts of the Darling Downs)

Photo: @jayde creative co photography
And that's exactly the point, Prime Minister. You are not one of these people who chose to live and work amongst the heart of rural Australia, and you never will be.

Those of us who are part of them through history or blood or geography fully understand their toughness and ability to endure such unimaginable hardship.

These are the same qualities that the people of rural Australia famously took to the trenches,

the same qualities we used to pioneer this nation, the same dogged qualities we used to make this nation great. We know about courage and hope and try because It's bred into our blood and our bone, and it defines who the people of rural Australian really are.

The only farmers that will be left after such a brutal drought are going to be the very best, the farmers you should be fighting to save so they can feed us in the future. And - in exactly the same way - the only livestock still left are going to be the very finest genetics,

the kind that we as a nation can never afford to lose.

And yet you and your jelly-backed and poorly informed 'advisors' have apparently made the gutless decision to simply walk away because, as you said, "There's no magic wand, you can't make it rain,

no need to panic, let's all just focus on the budget surplus instead .."

Well, Mr Morrison, if we were in a war I wouldn't want to have you fighting in the trenches beside me. You are much too chicken-hearted for me, Sir, as simple as that. If you don't want to have a go,

then that's your business, but you have no right to deliberately prevent our great Australian farmers from trying to have a go and find ways to survive and make it through.

Why won't you LEND our farmers the money they need to keep their stock alive?

You lend it to University students as a HEC's debt and they pay you back when they graduate and get a good job. It will rain again one day and farmers will be making money again and they can do exactly the same.

In any case, you certainly dole it out to every other shindig you can find overseas and then you distinguish yourself by giving money to the Moon or to Mars or whatever planet it was.

Whatever happened to doing the decent thing and helping your own people instead?

You and your Treasurer, Mr Frydenberg, might have turned your backs on us and left rural Australia to die, but let me assure you of this: come the next federal election every farmer in Australia will not forget how badly - how brutally - you have treated us.

We will march to the cities in our tens of thousands and we will call out Coo-ee on every street corner the same way our courageous forebears did when they walked in from the bush to enlist in WW1 - and we will, I promise you, finally settle the score.

Kind regards
Heather Pascoe
(Farmer from the Deserts of the Darling Downs)

Photo: @jayde creative co photography

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