Got a busy day today so not much by way of posting here, but please check out the piece I quote below by Miranda Divine she very nicely points out that the newly found support by Greenies for hazard reduction burning is actually far from being backed up by their action and advocacy in the past.

On the other side of the country, one Peter Robertson, the West Australian co-ordinator of the Wilderness Society, was singing from a different song sheet.
His letter last week to The West Australian stated: “Experience and risk analysis show that repeatedly burning tens of thousands of hectares of remote bushland and forest will do little to address the threat of bushfires to human communities … It would be a huge mistake if the community was led to believe that a massive, expensive and environmentally destructive prescribed burning program was going to protect them when…
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