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

Bible of the bush' urges party to concede global heating is real as Darren Chester compares Joyce's boast about retaining seats to a surgeon saying an operation succeeded when the patient died'

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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.