Dear Alison Jane,

Any chance you can write at a high brow level? I find low brow explanations a bit confusing and difficult to follow.

MrO, if you can't understand simple and straight English, then what are you doing on this forum.
I just commended her for being so straight to the point and clear, without the usual drivel and subjective, ideological, babble we usually have to wade through here.

+1 on what ALTRAV said.
Alison's straight up. Indeed it's a welcome change from the pomposity of the wannabe set trying prove something.

Complex is easy. Anyone can complicate things. Simple's much harder.

Runner: what does that have to do with the reality of global warming?

Armchair Critic:

Here's an exact quote from you.

"They learn 2 behaviors, 'respect your parents', and 'tit for tat'.
This is an issue they have to respect you on, and it's not unfair.
It's not going to tip then into dysfunctional behavior on it's own unless you're already smacking them for everything else.

And it's not necessarily wrong to solve problems with violence, it just depends on which ones.
Think of an valid example where it would be ok to do so.

What if you were out after dark with a partner, child or loved one and were attacked?
Would it be ok to solve THAT problem with violence?
Would it be better if you and your family were harmed?"

You did compare disobedient children to violent crime. [Deleted for abuse.]

You admitted that hitting kids teaches them "tit for tat." I hope their "tat" leaves you within an inch of your life.

Research shows that your parenting style is harmful.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/health/spanking-harmful-study-pediatricians.html

So please tell me: how well can your children read?

AT, AC is right with his comments on discipline and parenting.
There are of course variations and deviations from any given scenario or suggestions, when it comes to humans.
I have always maintained that the "one size fits all" mentality, does not work, ever!
The perfect example is siblings of the same family, stable, loving environment.
Within that group of brothers and sisters you will find totally different and sometimes extremely wide gaps, in their behaviour and attitudes.
From what we call 'bad' to 'good'.
So we as parents have to familiarise ourselves with EACH child, and treat them individually and according to their particular EQ.
Some bad kids can change for the better, but we just don't know what it might be, so we hope that as they move around in life, they will trip over it themselves, because any attempt by anyone to help, or suggest, or interfere in any way, will only turn them away and further towards the dark side.
I choose to ask why, always, and this latest bushfire debacle is no different.
I hear people ask why did this happen?
I totally ignore and mock any connection to GW, CC, the real culprit is ultimately, the giving of rights and lack of discipline to a generation who have grown up feeling entitled and all knowing in the wrong belief that they have rights, simply because they are of an age.
Well the truth is, if those same Nancy wallflowers, had been given a lot less rope and more discipline, less BS, such as "you can do or be anything you want", we would not have this and many other bad situations today, all led by short sighted in-experienced mature age FEMALE CHILDREN!
The rise of the female empowerment, as they like to call it, coincides with the rise of all these hair brained problems we have had to endure for decades.
Maggots get back in your soap box, instead of standing on it.
We've heard/had enough, it's now time to drop the act and do away with the femilezonazi and become women again.

Dear Alison Jane,

You really are struggling with this aren't you.

Here in Victoria we have had a policy of widespread fuel reduction equaling about 5% annually. While it has had some impact the recent fires here have ripped through areas that had seen fuel reduction burns just 3 years ago.

The capacity of organisations like Park Victoria to manage the work load has been severely compromised with nearly a third of its funding cut by the last Liberal government and only small increases under Labour.

Are you happy to forego tax cuts in order to return adequate funding to these bodies tasked with looking after our fire readiness?