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Policy Advisor to Dr Helen Haines MP, Federal Member for Indi. Integrity Commission. Climate change and agriculture. Rural development.
Oct 13, 2019 6 tweets 4 min read
From Wangaratta to Canberra.
As we speak, @helenhainesindi is launching the call to all pollies to come together, find #ourcommonground and take real action to secure the future of farming in the hotter, drier Australia we know is coming. “When I talk to farmers in my electorate about climate change, they say the climate has already changed. They are showing leadership, the people in this place must do the same”
@MakeMayoMatter
Oct 11, 2019 5 tweets 6 min read
At the Wangaratta show today @helenhainesindi called on the Government to protect #OurCommonGround and develop a strategy for Australian agriculture in a hotter, drier, more extreme climate. On Monday, we take the push to Parliament. @helenhainesindi The latest projections, released by @CSIRO last week, show by 2030s, the Ovens-Murray region of NE Vic will be up to 1.9 C hotter than it was in the 1990s.

I was born in 1991, so Victoria will have warmed almost 2 degrees in the time it takes me to turn 40.