A carbon tax is good for Australia's mental health

[Heather Gridley] Perhaps we could see the carbon tax as training wheels, getting us incrementally used to the rise in the cost of living and accompanying lifestyle adjustments that climate change will inevitably demand.
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Ultimately, there is no health on a dead planet.
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let’s not forget that Australians spend an average of $4000 a year on alcohol.
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Let’s let the carbon tax afford us a glimmer of hope that maybe, together, we can limit climate change to a degree where the planet can still sustain life in all its wild and wonderful forms. Gotta love that carbon tax!

Heather Gridley on The Conversation

Heather Gridley is a community and counselling psychologist

Convoy conveys anger of 1000 in capital - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - Political - Stock & Land

Four of the convoys arrived in Canberra last night and another seven will arrive to join the protest from their overnight staging posts outside the city this morning. No one knows how many are in the caravan, but organisers estimate 1000 vehicles will arrive at Exhibition Park for the start of the rally.

The Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, joined one of the south-bound convoys late yesterday.

Canada's severe weather - National Rural News - Grains and Cropping - General - Stock & Land

Thunderstorm activity is primarily a summer event each year, and can cause significant crop damage.

But farmers may be their own worst enemy.

There is a theory that evapotranspiration from crops can put the moisture into the atmosphere that can trigger the storms.