A National Service would be the right thing now for readiness for the next season. They could do cold burns before the next dry.

Loudmouth I share your view, all of it.
Hasbeen mostly yours too, more later.
Indy, come halfway with me.
Reintroduce pork-barreling.
Mostly but not near all, used in Queensland, during an emergency it employed farmers battling flood of fire or just low prices.
It kept the local economy moving.
Reform unemployment benefits give true pay for working for the dole, National service with a basic plan to get such things done.
Next much harder but much needed, stop the do not burn ever mob with firm new laws demanding, property owners highlighting parks and forests must burn in colder weather.
We some times, think more in terms of costs than the cost of not doing it.
Put an end to uniformed activists harming our bush by demanding it be left until the next firestorm kills it again.
Hasbeen have seen mid forest homes constructed to be in the middle of the bush.
Road in and out narrow twisting, bush-covered, in truth? oven waiting to bake those living in them.
Surely we can make laws like Victoria did post black friday?. and see they are policed.

Thanks to those who contributed, thread never made it but will after the coming inquiry.
More than likely it is my fault, not the subjects
Frankly unsure my lack of popularity is worth me sticking around
Will take a spell
Yes, we all do it, post threads that are not a subject most want to talk about.
Too my writing is again under attack
I Know it is not up to standard.
Know, however, I have never stopped trying to improve it, and never will
Too, sad but true, as I time and again, find I am writing three letters in advance of the one I want too? [dyslexia] I know I can never ever be as sharp as some demand.
Read my first posts! with help from some here, I have improved.
YES! My views! on just about every subject, are not the REQUIRED ONES! have met GY know he is a great bloke, too he holds very very different views than me.
Mate, please consider your reasons for the OUTSTANDING action you took in starting this great place.
You surely NEVER wanted it to shrink to its current numbers? to welcome a bitter old man culture and harass those dreadful people like me?
My regards all, I may pop back in a week or so, much thought needed
Openly put this thought
MODERATION is needed to enforce the rules of the site, not dump anyone but remind everyone, it is not a place some are free to endlessly insult
That moderator should be independent and not an existing poster
my true regards

are free to endlessly insult
Belly,
It's what you are doing !

Hi Belly,

I hope you haven't contracted the new disease :) - that to disagree is to hate; that to disagree is to insult; that disagreement therefore should be banned.

Leave that authoritarian stuff to the woke. You and I are far above that, maybe we're just too old for it :)

Happy New Year, mate,

Joe

Loudmouth2,
Your last post is one of sillier ones, hope you improve next year. The only hate due to disagreement comes from the indoctrinated, not from the thinkers !