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Guitz said..Listening to the leader and ex leader of the Nat's on radio yesterday, i was left shaking my head at their lack of leadership and maturity.
I later sat down and wrote my right of reply:

Bush fires, drought,floods are not a new phenomenon in Aust.and these are not the most devestating.. It is a
disgrace for the greens to blame the current gov't for political point scoring. The Nats could have phrased their response better but I agree with their sentiments.
BTW have you read this poem in full .Written a long long time ago
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"I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains
Of ragged mountain ranges
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -"
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"Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze ..."