Boothby feels the impacts of climate change very, very keenly. People in the hills know the threat of bushfire; they've lived through it, and they know that without real climate action things will only get worse. They'll see more fires burning more intensely.

Let's be clear: the only way to get a good climate policy—or any climate policy, for that matter—is to change the government.

The agriculture sector in rural and regional Australia is miles ahead of the Liberals and light years ahead of the Nationals.