"Australia has already suffered an economic hit from global warming" the report adds.

"We must hit net zero emissions by 2050" is the stern advice of climate scientists.

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Yet arrogantly in response, Scott Morrison declared Australia would make its own "sovereign decisions" on emission targets, adding he was not concerned about future exports despite Australia's major trading partners, including China and Japan, adopting net-zero emissions targets.

Yet by not doing so, the costs to Australia will continue to rise every year, with farmers, builders, manufacturers, miners and tourism-related businesses at the economic "front line". Bendigo too, will be directly affected as regionally many are engaged in farming, building, manufacturing and tourism.

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Why is it that we allow our politicians to dictate our future adversely when clearly they show inadequate understanding of the science of global warming and its devastating consequences?

The old argument that we must continue to support coal mining and fossil fuel power stations in the interest of 'jobs' is totally irrational with the practice being both unsustainable and crippling to our economic and environmental future.

Like all countries, our future lies in the embrace of clean-energy programs which can deliver zero emissions by 2050 and create thousands of exciting new jobs without detriment to the environment and the economy.

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Our government would be wise to heed the advice of climate scientists and digest well the research findings of the latest report by Deloitte Access Economics. Pursuit of partisan policies designed for political advantage has delivered only negative outcomes over many decades. Clearly, only a genuine unified bipartisan effort will help secure our future against the inevitable ravages of man-made climate change.

I don't think that Ching Ang ( The Advertiser 4/11) should be worried about the 'looming' bushfire season or a 'horrific summer'. With good rainfalls this year in the eastern States minimising drought conditions, forests will be generally too damp to burn badly.

Fuel reduction burning that has been carried out in recent months will also have reduced the chance that any bushfires will get out of control.

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On Ching's other point that the federal government must reduce emissions to protect us from the warming climate sounds good in theory, but due to the tiny contribution our emissions make to the global total, we can do little but encourage China and the USA to reduce their very large contributions.

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