Forests burn and reason goes up in smoke: a family memoir

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Fire burns through the stories of my family, writes tonyowright

None of these contributions, nor any of the unconstrained outrage on social media, offered anything towards either prevention or the beginning of relief from a national emergency.

Fifth-generation canola, wheat and barley farmer Neil Westcott says climate change is"the boiling frog".Conservatives may have done their best to deny climate change, but it was the Greens, for pity’s sake, whoto deny the Rudd government its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. Down the scale from lofty arguments about climate, however, remains a continuing debate about reducing fuel lying in forests and national parks ready to feed flames.He was droving cattle alone through a forest in far south-west Victoria when a steer lay down and refused to get up.

Interviewed on video by south-west Victorian historian Garry Kerr, the old boy told of the fire racing away and his alarm at his inability to do anything about it. The quilted floor of the forest was thus cleared of litter and produced new grass, wildfires didn’t easily get a hold when the hot winds blew, and wildlife wasn’t wiped out.My father said he had learned it from his father who had learned it from his.He sucked his teeth and eventually conceded that of course it came from the Indigenous people.

 

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tonyowright Hello mainstream media! Why aren’t you showing us this footage of indigenous supporters of Evo Morales being tear gassed and brutalized by the military coup regime in Bolivia If this was happening in Russia, Venezuela or Syria, you’d have it plastered

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