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Leading article Australia

Climate warriors

8 February 2020

9:00 AM

8 February 2020

9:00 AM

It’s been an endless summer but not in the style of the 1966 classic film of sun and surf. Our beloved country, its forests choked with volatile fuel, felt and looked like a war zone. Australians have had to endure not just drought and dust, heat and hail, suffocating smoke and ferocious fires but the cacophony of climate warriors using the megaphone of the media to recontest the last election.

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