Replacing dense woody vegetation with grassy woodlands as predominated before European settlement, restores biodiversity and resilience. The Great Koala Scam is an example of the general ignorance about sensible land management:
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2017/11/bst_20171127_0753.mp3

"My guess is most Australians aren't aware that an area of forest and bushland the size of the MCG is currently bulldozed in Queensland every three minutes"

Where do they think we build the houses for the influx of southerners to live in?
I particularly love how these well off southerners buy houses and then just leave them sitting empty increasing rents and house prices for the people who live here.

I bet you don't have issue with the influx of foreigners do you?
- No, because you're just a progressive Labor voting schmuck.

"As doctors, we are deeply concerned about the impact of land clearing and deforestation on human health."

Well I'm not a doctor, and what's this 'we'?
- So you're not an expect on Wildlife Conservation or Land Management then?
Why does being a Doctor make you any more knowledgeable than anyone else?

"People depend on forests and bushlands for survival."

Really? I thought they needed 'food, clothing and a roof over their head'.
It helps to be employed but if not the government helps provide these things to every Australian through welfare.
- 'Coles and Centrelink mate', get it right, are you blind?

- And welfare, in case you aren't aware is made possible by hard working Australians paying tax. People like the ones you wish to put out of a job right now because you're doing well in life and think it would be good to follow a cause.
And the cause you choose is one that messes with other peoples livelihoods..

Imagine if you worked in the cattle industry and some snooty doctor wanted to put YOU on the DOLE QUEUE.
You should be ashamed of yourself.

Do you know anything about jobs, exports, the economy and of putting slabs of Australian meat on ones plate at dinner time?

[Cont.]
And here we go 'Climate Change: the Single Greatest Human Health Threat of this Century'.
- I bet you yourself harmed more people yourself with mandated vaccines you failed to disclose the side effects for.

Look you're in the health industry right?
Can you provide for me 'Just 1' coroners report where the cause of death is determined to be 'Climate Change'?
Put your money where your bloody mouth is.

MWPoynter
The 1mill was for 3 years in east Aust. Qld does half so it's 150,000 Ha /year which fits most estimates.

diver dan
Mulga.
"’. . Evidence suggests that desert Aboriginal people have never focussed burning in mulga. Threats throughout mulga country include clearing, grazing, excessive levels of firing, and firewood extraction."

Most Qld clearing is in the eastern half but mulga is in S-West . Aboriginal clearing was of undergrowth in cool weather fires , leaving park-like trees to protect grasses and improve hunting views . Inland Aust had higher stock rates in the past under those conditions.

If re-afforestation of previously cleared areas, was the only way to address climate change? Then I might have some sympathy for this visionless twit!

A lot of our marginal land will not support even sustenance farming without the grazier being able to knock down some mulga during drought.

What would you prefer sweetheart, that very nearly bankrupt farmers let animals they cannot sell, just starve?

This is typical green BS and demonstrates as nothing else can, just how impoverished of original thought, green thinkers are.

Instead we should be advocating the tilling of this fragile soil, then sowing it, with oil rich native wisteria. This is a perenial legume that both fixes nitrogen and reduces erosion.

Plus, provide a reliable income from frost and drought tolerant, carbon sequestering, plant material/bio fuel. That can support almost any agricultural pursuit from the ex crush high protein seeds for up to seven years!

Then have the carbon rich material returned to the soil during subsequent resowing. Be it as feed for fish farms, poultry and egg production or just running a viable feedlot.

Then with reliable water included as a essential adjunct, get some fodder factories built and able to reduce the amount of mulga needing to be knocked down. Just to feed starving cattle or put food on a farming family's table!

What we must avoid, is nincompoops like the author, forcing her very narrow and destructive vision down hapless throats!

Go back to the coffee shop and the latte sweetheart, that's all you're good for.

What do you want? Another four farmers a week reducing to committing suicide?

Let the cane fires burn,
let me fell no pain,
as I drown my soul in whiskey and dance in the flames.
And when the crooked bankers arrive tomorrow, to sell me up,
let them find only the charred remains!
Quote unquote. Alan B.

Dr Alan B.,
You are a sentimental bloke . Native wisteria Callerya megasperma is found in southeastern Queensland and the northeastern corner of New South Wales south to the Richmond River. It grows in rainforest. It is a valuable indicator species as it often grows in association with the birdwing butterfly vine (Pararistolochia praevenosa), one of the only food plants for the caterpillars of the rare Richmond Birdwing Butterfly (Ornithoptera richmondia).

The cockies of heartbreak corner in mulga land will be glad to dig wisteria into the desert / grazing pastures , smiling at the fluttering birdwing butterflies among the orchids and whispering brooks of the sand dunes. Burke and Wills loved their latte and flower-arranging on Coopers Creek rainforest lamb pastures.