Wagga Labor councillor Vanessa Keenan has sent an open letter to the Deputy Prime Minister telling him how he has been on her mind. "You may find it odd but I thought of you a lot but I wanted to let you know." she wrote on Facebook.

"When I heard from family working in the RFS Command Centre that the Dunn’s Road fire was coming straight for us, I thought of you. As I gathered what I could of my mum’s precious belongings I thought of you," she wrote.

"When I first saw the flames on the neighbours property and raced back to let the others know it had arrived, I thought of you. I thought of you again when I rang Triple 0, both times, to tell them there were people here and we had no way out."

She ended her post by asking him if he had thought of the devastated communities.

"Did you think about all the devastated communities that will be impacted by your lack of action or even acknowledgement of climate change? Will you think of us now? What will it take to get your attention? I have tears in my eyes writing this letter to you. I’m desperate, the whole country is desperate. Now is the time."