NATIONAL SELF-INTEREST

IT is puzzling to see how a political party which purports to only represent rural and regional areas in Australia can call itself the National Party.

Perhaps a more apt name might be –The Ransom Party – as the rest of the country looks on with dismay while they extort millions from us in order to

shamelessly shore up their own electoral prospects at the next election with scant regard to the real issue of climate. Ian Broinowski Battery Point