Dear individual,

My earlier reply seems to have gone south so I will offer it again. I have a relative in a quite senior position in one of our uniformed services.

One of the things he detests is being paraded out to be a back drop for some politician. While he understands that in an emergency situation getting unfiltered information to the public from a senior officer is an important part of the role there are times when he isn't even given the opportunity to speak. He says all he thinks about while he is there is about all the things he could be getting done instead.

It takes a strong leader who will look after his charges in this regard even if it means stepping on politician's toes. The head of the ADF did it at a press conference with Christopher Pyne.

http://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2272083989707524

So why don't you go after the politicians who insist that they have a backdrop of uniformed people to give them more gravitas instead of some bloke who has put in over 30 years of service and who started very much at the pointy end?

So no one is going to attempt to explain how and/or when us " doing our bit as a country" will stop bush fires from happening.

About what I expected.

The fact is bush fires like this will happen (and have been happening for millennia) whatever we do in terms of CO2 reductions. Its just that those of a certain persuasion want to pretend otherwise in order to get what they (or more exactly their gurus ) want ie societal overhaul.

The only thing, the one and only thing, that will reduce the severity of these fires is a massively ramped up controlled burn programme. But that is politically unacceptable and none of those whose jobs depend on being politically correct will say it.

So, since doing the only sensible thing is not acceptable they have to find an alternate excuse for their failure...CO2.

So true mhaze, without controlled burns fires like this are inevitable.

In these districts 2017 was a very wet year, with rainfall of 35% & more above average. This promoted a huge growth of underbrush that chocked national parks, & private woodlands alike.

Followed 2 years later by the driest year on record has killed most of this & led to an equally huge load of dead underbrush, just asking for a reason to burn. Although watering as much as my dam water supply will allow, I have lost a dozen shrubs, & a few small trees in my house paddock due to this dry.

Then we have national parks, doing about stuff all to try to reduce this hazard, & the recipe is for disaster. Then build at the top of wooded ridges, up which we know fires race, & it is a matter of when not if the fire will get them.

Come off that raw prawn SR. You know as well as the rest of us, that it is the ability to brown nose, & to get their bosses out of the sh1t they have caused, that gets bureaucrats to the top positions. It most definitely has nothing to do with any ability to do the job. Particularly so in things like fire fighting, that usually involves fighting the politicians to get the right policies in place.

As you can't possibly believe the garbage you post, don't you ever get sick ow writing such stuff?

yep we use to call couples shacked up living in sin (still true) but now we call breathing sin because we have traded morality for fake morality of virtue signalling backed by fake pseudo science and lies.

Tony Abbott firefighter, serving Indigenous communities, serving his community

Zali wants Govt to declare 'climate emergency'

says it all about regressive virtue signalling voters and pollies

how dumbed down can people be.

With reference to mhaze's comment about doing our bit to stop bushfires, Dr Ottmar Edenhofer, director of the influential Potsdam Institute, gets it.’One has to free oneself,’ he says, ‘from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.’ The last word is from UN climate supremo, Christiana Figures, who admits, ‘probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves… is to intentionally transform the economic development model’.

The only way to reduce bushfires is to clean up, burn off, something the Green loonies keep blocking and campaigning against all the time. Bloody hypocrites.