Volunteer firefighter Murray Drechsler left the frontline for a different battle – a message to the nation’s politicians.
Murray has been with the NSW RFS for 18 years and an activist for the last decade.
He was one of 200 activists demanding the Australian government do more, with some critical of Scott Morrison’s rebuttal of a new global index which rated Australia’s climate change performance as very poor. “You’re killing us,” he said. “Stop, you’re killing us. We are all suffering across the board through the inaction”. Image: News Corp Australia
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