In Cate Kennedy’s short story Cold Snap, the protagonist is portrayed as a highly devoted child to the natural world. Kennedy emphasises his devotion to nature by the need to protect the pure environment from the ‘loony lady’. Through Billy’s behaviour, she insinuates that his actions are questionable, however, he has morally correct intentions. She draws on Billy’s means to preserve the order of Australia’s landscape through his conversations with the ‘loud’ trees to elicit sympathy from the audience. The author utilises this to justify her belief that the rights and needs of humans are less important than those of other living things.
Cate endorses the environmental activism individuals exhibit. She used the native Australian ‘dark’ and
