Paul

I'd love to see Christine Milne in speedos.

Bet you, we wouldnt even need to doctor the photo to get a laugh!

SPQR,

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I am not thanking you for that image of plucked turkey flesh and sideburns that would stall a Honda brushcutter.

The time will come now we are set on a course to ignore AGW when despite Abbott in lycra Speedo fire-fighter gear, we will have to consider building our Mac mansions underground to have any chance to survive.
The other alternative and no doubt it will appear enticing to some, is to clear fell all the trees and bushes on the whole of Australia to be safe.

There are already underground homes in the Blue Mountains and they are not only comfortable and energy efficient but they don't burn; there are also above ground homes that don't burn but very few people are interested in them, least of all councils.
The homes that have been burned will, no doubt, be replaced by equally at risk structures ready to burn next time.

The tree clearing that needs to be done is to remove highly flamable eucalypts from around homes and to remove all trees that are tall enough to fall across and block roads during a fire.

Nah, underground homes or underground anything else will never catch on, particularly for the greens.

It's too hard to hold your hand out from 6 feet down.

Come off it Paul, it's the lefty shower room that you'd have to keep your backs to the wall. That's the lot with all the homo members, not the Libs.

Of course there were those who tried to make green political capital out of the 2003 fires that razed some suburbs of Canberra and at an estimated damage bill of $450 million was the second to the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires that affected Victoria and South Australia. In the Canberra fire 2000 businesses, homes and vehicles were damaged, of which 470 homes were completely destroyed.

Had Bandt been around in 1983 and 2003 he could have blamed the governments at the time for 'global warming' - confusing weather, other natural occurrences with it and disregarding, where later found apparent, the contributions of poor fire prevention and control.

As the Canberra experience showed, it doesn't require lots of trees for a fire to get out of control. What Australian city might not be similarly devastated by fire, especially with the amount of (politically correct) native trees, shrubs and mulch, dry weather and the wind in the right direction?

The Greens simplify complex causes to a simple headline. Regrettably the media and particularly the publicly-funded national broadcasters, have ever given the Greens and their policies anywhere near the scrutiny they should be receiving.

Adam Bandt won headlines. He and leader Christine Milne are ecstatic at the free publicity and unrepentent. The Greens are a protest party that delivers plum jobs to some well placed politicians It is all care and no responsibility. Maybe not much care either.