I am sick of hearing about koalas and extinction from activists who would prefer that the human race would die out - i.e everyone but themselves - in the name of 'saving the planet'.

'Registered charities' are tricksters, rorting the public via politicians.

As this author has said elsewhere, the extinction scam is part of the wider climate scam.

It's a miracle how the species even evolved, 25m years ago, with no homo saps around, to clear the heavily-forested landscape.

Ultimately, the point is, industrial-scale native-forest cutting has lost its social licence. Just like coal mining and mass immigration.

Burn down Byron Bay will fix the problem!

Dan

The point is, Steve S, that Vic Jurskis has very accurately hit back at 'conservationists' such as yourself who use "the koala is nearly extinct" argument to stop all sorts of development, including small amounts of timber harvesting in State forests.

Steve S. 200 years ago koalas were a rare animal now they are a pest and hypocritical green ideologues are using their suffering as a result of overcrowding as a weapon against a sustainable renewable resource industry.

Selectively logged forests conducive to Koalas prospering due to more abundant food supply.

We should continue to selectively log our native forests. Selectively logged forests produce twice the jobs of broad scale clearing and half the lumber take. Produce logging roads that are natural fire breaks and put many more firefighters in areas at risk.

Uncontrolled dogs should be tranquilized, impounded, euthanized, and the noncompliant owner billed for the service.

There must be Koala bridges or underpasses that allow fully fenced highways to allow safe passage to migrating Koalas.

Additional costs even as the interest bill on our trillion-dollar debt exponentially rises as revenues fall due to completely asinine tax relief for the better off.

Looking after our national icon should be our privilege as should be, paying our fair share of tax for the privilege of residency in the best country in the world.

That fair share ought to be an entirely unavoidable flat tax of 15% that is levied against all profit/income earned here in Australia, above a generous tax-free threshold.

Getting the revenue base up and drawing debt down requires the abandonment of idiotic ideologies and the stupid embargo on nuclear power.

Nuclear power as MSR thorium, in public ownership will produce power prices as low as 1 cent PKWH and have the high-tech energy dependent manufacturing tax paying, automated industries of the world, beating a path to our door. And setting up in rural and regional Australia. Because that's where we will allow them to go and where we ought to locate SM MSR thorium power plants, some of which will burn nuclear waste other nations pay us to take off of their hands and provide almost free electricity

Our future defense will rely on total manufacturing self-sufficiency. Rather than just selling rocks to China! I believe, our current leadership, locked and bolted, stupidity personified, mindset.


At least the Asians seem to value our Koalas more than we do.
Alan B.

Excellent article. Unfortunately the same process is happening in many areas of public life. People identify a problem (or what they think is a problem) and gain public funding to address this problem. Once a large number of people and organisations are suckling at the tax payers teat it almost impossible to turn off the supply of money and these organisations and individuals will never admit that the problem no longer exists. The same can be seen in "climate change", covid response, pharmaceuticals in general, the racism industry, saving the great barrier reef and almost any other area where a trough of other peoples money exists. The cowards that dole out the money gain kudos for "saving the planet" or whatever the purported goal is. The beneficiaries of the largess have enormous interest in keeping the scam going.

Footnote. We were once the third wealthiest nation in the world and a creditor one at that with a post war robust manufacturing sector. And all created, one could argue by cheap abundant reliable 24/7 dispatchable publicly owned and controlled energy.

Times have changed to be sure but economic fundamentals never ever do. We talk of bringing in more and more people. We cannot house those already here! And building more dwelling will require the loss of more and more habitat!

We look to a future where more and more occupations will be automated as will much of our future defense.

Our post war recovery was an energy led recovery and the only prospect in play this time around.

Think, absolutely everything we use or consume has an energy component. And the price of energy all but controls the end price we pay for all service, goods or public amenity.

Only nuclear power allows us to turn seawater into fuel plastic and fertilizer. And ultracheap power will allow us to drought proof this nation given the costs of desalination and pushing water uphill.

If we don't have an energy led recovery! We just don't recover nor start to make inroads into a massive debt and exponentially increasing debt service costs.

Importing missing skills can be temporary just as it was in post war Germany which created Europe's largest economy and the economic engine house of Europe. And allowed the sensible creation of a nuclear-powered industrial sector.



Simply put, the cheapest, safest, cleanest energy in the world in thorium/nuclear waste burning, based nuclear power! And both perfectly safe, clean and also carbon-free. Something the Koala population of Australia will thank us for in the fourth coming era as other energy starved nations follow where we led.

Blame shifting or the same old, same old may serve a political imperative but does nothing real for the economy nor our native species/forests or our national or exported carbon footprint.

Just don't do something, stand there.
Alan B.

Its a highly irresponsible article.

Doesn't the author realise how many lives, careers, organisations and government programmes are reliant on hiding the truth about the koala apocalypse?

Just be quiet and pretend all the "flea-ridden, piddling, stinking, scratching, rotten little things" (John Brown) are going to be extinct 4 years from next Tuesday week.