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Cindy Stevens traces her family line back to the early pioneer days on Western Australia’s wheatbelt. Now she and her husband, Simon Wallwork, and are pioneers of a different kind: in adapting to climate change.“The change in Liberal leader [to Scott Morrison] was probably a major tipping point for us,because we could see there was going to be no leadership from the government on a federal level,” she says at her farm near Corrigin, or 230km east of Perth.
Simon Wallwork and Cindy Stevens Related: Who owns Australia? The couple’s son Archie helps bring in the sheepWAFarmers president John Hassell in Pingelly Related: ‘The living heart of Australia’: fracking plans threaten fragile channel country Crops on the Corrigin farmA lone sheep on the Julcintra property.
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Source: theguardian.com