HUNGER striking Monaro farmer, Peter Spencer, is vowing to continue pressuring the Federal Government to own up to its responsibilities and pay farmers compensation for land clearing restrictions.
Still speaking out, despite going more than 30 days without food on his makeshift campsite perched high on a wind monitoring tower on his property "Saarahnlee", near Cooma, he said the government's plea for him to take the issue to court was a deliberate attempt to confuse a straightforward government responsibility.
He said the former Federal Government's report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, signed by then Environment Minister Senator, Ian Campbell, highlighted how 87.5 million tonnes of Australia's 188 million tonnes of carbon emissions between 1990 and 2012 would be extracted from the atmosphere by farm vegetation.
"This is a public document, with an executive seal. It's nothing to do with the courts," Mr Spencer told The Land.
"Why isn't somebody asking (Senator Penny) Wong to explain what the Federal Government has already acknowledged as fact?"
Mr Spencer maintained that if not for the emissions absorbed by farm vegetation - banned from being cleared by State and federal governments working together to present a positive case on Australia's carbon abatement strategies - Australia may have been forced to pay for its carbon output as European governments have already done.
"The beneficiaries of this illegal act have been astronomical," he said
Farmers deserved to be compensated for carrying the cost of the carbon emissions savings achieved for Australia, he said.
"This protest is not about me. It's about showing that denying our landholders their due compensation was one of the greatest thefts in western democracy.
"This protest is not about Peter Spencer. I'm here making a point. If our constitution is not put straight it's going to get a whole lot worse than just not compensating farmers for what they are justly entitled to."