As the past few months have shown us, climate change is real and destructive.
And it’s only going to get worse in the coming years.
It is time for Australia to stop spending billions on war machines to kill people in other countries and put a few billion into organisations that can help and protect Australians from (un)natural disasters at home.
We need to expand and fund State Emergency Services, Rural Fire Brigades, hospitals and other local and volunteer organisations and train and equip a decent portion of Australian Defence Forces so that thousands of well trained and equipped fire-fighters and flood specialists can be sent to anywhere in Australia in a matter of days if not hours.
Derek Harper, Billinudgel
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
