Cast your mind back to the 1990's with Bracks and Thwaites in charge. They watched over one million acres of bush burn over a couple of years. They were lauded by the greens for this because they are both in the cosy club that wants us out of bushland. Really it is all about power and the green groups wanting to take over our lives. If only we can get a real opposition party going who will defund and hound this rubbish back to their filthy inner city suburbs but that is not the LNP.
Perhaps some real green legislation? Check out the filthy air in the inner city and insist that councils fix it by banning cars and let the greens match that?

Sustainable forest management?

Well, that's how we used to do it. When the forest was selectively logged, rather than clear felled for the chipwood industry and additional farmland or additional urban housing.

The green solution and secret agenda? To depopulate and deindustrialise? Always providing it doesn't include them and theirs!

In a comparatively short space of time, we won't be able to give away our coal gas or oil and the rest of the world is going to prefer bamboo for composite building material.

That means, on our present path and leadership, we will be reduced to exported food for our living and our economy. Imagine that when we are gripped n the teeth of an even worse drought than the one we are experiencing now, replete with the hottest driest summer and record autumn temperatures!

We are so unprepared for our logical future as to beggar belief! While activists try to save the forest and the cute native animals ahead of we humans and all else including the economy.

Not that the environment and the economy are mutually exclusive, They clearly are not!

But forced into oblivion bt far more important issues, like whether or not Barnaby should have his old job back, who should lead the coalition and what non-core promise must be made to win the mugs in mugsville?

Ably assisted by the least intelligent mugs, who are willing to buy triumphant Trumpphism, totally!

Compounded by hopeless ignorance and no survival skills on the part of a lazy indifferent youth, pinned to their smartphones and bogus links that decide for them on almost all important issues?

Why bother or care!? They don't! Can't even get off of their lard asses, to go vote or even more improbable, volunteer for service, either in the military or social civil role!

No, they have far more important fish to fry, i.e., binge drinking, music festivals, party drugs and fornicating!

And reminiscent of a decadent Rome, of eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die?
Alan B.

Oh come on Alan B, cheer up! Your post had me laughing. I am not poking fun at you, it really did cheer me up. Remember the words of the 20th century economist John Maynard Keynes "In the long run we are all dead". That is yours and mine only consolation. I am off to the movies.

The Andrews Labor govt was returned last November with an increased majority and the Greens lost seats, so there is no particular need for Labor to follow Greens ideology to stay in power. Yet that is what they appear to be doing, i.e. attacking the timber industry based on native forests.

Hopefully their union base is concerned about jobs and can push back to protect a viable and sustainable industry.
Yes, the Bracks/Thwaites Labor govt did huge damage to the native forest industry, and it appears the Andrews/d'Ambrosio pair aim to do the same. Shame on them.

The industry just can't move to plantation timbers tomorrow, as argued by some groups. Large new eucalypt plantations need to be planted and then grow for 40+ yrs until the trees are big enough to saw. And finding the already cleared land on which to plant new plantations will be very difficult.

Careful native forest timber harvesting can and should continue. Bushfires, not timber harvesting, are overwhelmingly the main threat to our forests and their wildlife and capability for water supply.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY0z-BKhefY

Got no problem with parkland but there is a difference to forests and how they are maintained. I remember in the western suburbs of Melbourne there was an unmade road which linked two other roads. Residents wanted it, but they wouldn't build it as it endangered a bird. Of course, vacant land surrounded, so as soon as a developer bought it to establish housing estates, the bird was no longer extinct! Just like that they build the road. What gvts do to manipulate and exploit land for gain. Avoid #Laborstings