Rural News Corp paper delivers sharp rebuke to Barnaby Joyce over Nationals’ climate ‘deniers’

Barnaby Joyce has been criticised in an editorial in the rural newspaper the Weekly Times in which the National party were urged to acknowledge the climate crisis ‘will affect all parts of the country’. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

An editorial in the Weekly Times has delivered a rare sharp rebuke to Barnaby Joyce post-election, urging him and the National party to concede climate change is real and will affect all parts of the country, not just “leafy suburbs” in the city.

Known as the “bible of the bush”, the Victoria-based News Corp newspaper dedicated to rural and particularly agricultural issues has accused Joyce of “not reading the play” from the weekend’s election results.