It's not just recent recent bushfires that "highlight" the pest havens and fire hazards that are the huge, wasted and neglected tracts of land called National Parks. These areas, dedicated to so-called environmentalists and politically motivated eco-activists, should really be referred to as National Disgraces, impacting as they do on hard pressed farmers and graziers with uncontrolled pest plants and verminous animals.

There is no neighbour worse than a government.

While it might be necessary to have some national parks in Australia, government has gone over the top creating parks they cannot maintain in their stupid desire to pander to enviro-lunatics who don't even vote for them. And, as O'Brien writes, most of them have no desirable characteristics to justify their existence.

The author's reference to the 'adjustment' to years of neglect the bushfires have provided in the matter of koala overpopulation in KI national parks, and brumbies in Kosciuszko national Park is an interesting one. Controlled logging and other wealth- creating activities in these areas would help with such problems, and uncontrollable bushfires. Given the trashing of our manufacturing industries, we need to be paying more attention than ever to primary production. With two thirds of Australia barren, every bit of fertile land we have should be put to good use, not sacrificed to minority extremist groups who want to see the country reduced to Third World status.

Has it crossed any mind that many farmers are doing and have done it tough with pastures nibbled to the topsoil all while our national parks and forest reserves were waist-deep in some areas with animal fodder!

And had this herbage been grazed by starving animals they wouldn't have starved and most of the fuel load that contributed to recent wildfires would now be manure on the ground in these same areas.

But locked up at the behest of eco-fascists and their activism!

And assisted by self-serving politicians who would do a deal with the devil for the devil's preferences! And just to serve, I believe, a patently puerile pernicious partisan political outcome!

We need to look for and understand best practise and judge it on the substantive evidence, not brainwashed fallacy! And means we need to put as much water as possible into the landscape.

Not with massive dams that exacerbate evaporation that currently can take up to 50% of our surface water annually But rather a multitude of new upland dams that only raise the water table by around a metre above adjacent ground level, and we need a combination of levies and weirs along most major lowland watercourses that serve via a trench system every hundred feet or so to saturate the landscape via covered evaporation free trenches and extended as far as the topography and total water volume will allow We've been too successful at watering the ocean!.

[ N.B. A one-metre high weir can power as many homes as thirty.]

On the understanding that broadscale irrigation also serves to mitigate against climate change and killer heat waves.

Those who object need to take a good long hard look at outcomes and a destroyed tourist industry that among other things the greens have argued for as they and their asinine preferred policies sent the joint to the nearest taxidermist!TBC.
Alan B.

A credible objective of national parks in Australia is to preserve conditions as they were before European settlement. That clearly excludes hoofed animals and willows along riverbanks. We also need large areas of vegetation as a carbon sink, the estimate for the last two financial years being about -19 Mt CO2. That erases the emissions from two big coal stations and is in the emissions stats quoted by the PM.

However the pre settlement condition we may not able to preserve is fire proneness. The recent fire and any future bulk thinnning or grazing of parks would turn the negative into a positive i.e increase rather than reduce emissions. Nonetheless I think we should have a trial policy of letting park fires burn out. In the late 2020s assess what the net CO2 effect is, one possibility is less CO2 uptake then again less fire.

All crown land should be available for grazing with reasonable conditions.

Leave the National Parks alone...
You are NOT the only inhabitants of this planet.
Animals need somewhere to live too.

Leave the National Parks alone...
ateday,
tell that to the noxious weeds that most fuel comprises of now !