Why don't you have a policy on 'climate change'?
The Country Alliance is not in Government and not concerned with matters outside it's area of interest and influence.
Having said that, Country Alliance does make some observations on the debate. For example, we have concerns over the 'science' reportedly referred to by proponents of the climate change theory and the impacts bad policy can have on our constituents.
We note with great interest the doubt cast by the UK High Court on the facts touted in “An Inconvenient Truth”, and the scepticism by Productivity Commission researchers of the Stern Report. In both cases, the arguments put forward were determined to be partisan. Since then, there has been increasing division within the scientific community about the evidence provided by those arguing for climate change.
This should not be confused with one of our main aims, which is to maintain and protect a clean environment. We have always supported that, but not at the expense of rational and informed debate. The current debate has more than its fair share of zealots who are not prepared to debate or look at science that does not agree with their personal beliefs - or agendas.