No idea why media still depicts Nats as a farmers party. They are a mining party beholden to coal and gas interests and funded by Gina Rinehart. When there is a conflict between farmers and fossil fuels, they always back fossil fuels. Their opposition to wind is to protect fossil fuels for longer.
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I suspect you were being ironic.
Resource thieves
Dynasties from white England
Joh's response: who are you?
The mining companies don’t vote of course - but their business is tied into rural economies much more than cities?
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Is it ignorance? Lake of science education? Or maybe denialism as they just dont want 2 know
for "Knuckles"
Even here in Inverloch Vic, the local #SurfLifeSavingAustralia president is openly running as a Senate candidate, for the Nationals!
Cheered on by all the local RW Facebook mealy mouths.
Fortunately back in his home state, the landscape is still so reflective of Dorothea Mckellar's '𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚, 𝒂 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔, 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅'.
Australians.
We wish he'd stay in his own electorate. After all, they voted for him, so he's their problem. #auspol
in big part back to the Nationals themselves who were in power for 9 long years til 2022, and ignored what people needed. They're all self absorbed, looking out for themselves.
Nobody puts a hand out, for a handout, quicker than a farmer.