A UOW student's open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, criticising his infamous holiday to Hawaii while her father fights bushfires, has since gone viral.
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But that's not what pleases teenager Aish Cowgill most.
The University of Wollongong student is happy enough that slamming the government for climate change inaction has struck a chord with so many Australians.
But the 19-year-old is most pleased the letter she wrote on December 19 has helped raise almost $7000 for the Clarence/Dargan RFS Brigade.
The initial Facebook post raised $550 before Cowgill and her best friend Caitlyn Ferguson set up the GoFundMe page.
The duo, who grew up in Bathurst and Lithgow respectively, have proudly supported their fathers' efforts fighting bushfires as volunteer firefighters for more than 15 years.
"Some 70 per cent of Caitlyn's property was destroyed on Sunday. That's when she decided to start the fundraiser and I got on board with the letter," Cowgill said.
In the letter, Cowgill says her father had been on-call as a firefighter for the NSW Rural Fire Service each Christmas for the past 15 years.
"From a young age I have hardly gotten to see my father during summer, as the country prepares for exhausting heat," she wrote.
"However for the first year in his 30-year career, there is no end to the season in sight.
"18 hour days for over a month are simply what is expected. Australia has broken its average temperature record twice in one week."
Hurtful online comments about the piece has not deterred the Bachelor of International Studies (Deans Scholar) student.
"I wrote the letter because every season has been getting worse. each season has been getting longer and more devastating essentially," Cowgill said.
"The comments didn't really hurt me that much because I feel like the only people they are hurting is themselves because they have everything to lose and nothing to gain from denying climate science and literature.
"My letter is focused on government inaction and how Scott Morrison has had ample opportunity to do something about the bushfires and help out a lot more, especially with emissions reductions targets that would prevent future disasters."
At a press conference in Sydney last Sunday, the Prime Minister called for Australians to "be kind to each other" and indicated no change on climate policy would be enacted.
This did not please Cowgill.
"I can barely see out of my bedroom window, yet I can clearly see the desolate future already occurring because of climate change."