QFES Acting Assistant Commissioner Megan Stiffler said fire conditions are “unprecedented” due to the extremely dry
conditions. “Conditions are very severe,” she said. “We’ve got fires behaving in ways we haven't seen before because it's so dry.”
Why is it unusual? Dry weather, not enough controlled burns, westerly winds - sounds like the last lot of bushfires
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Queenslanders told to brace for severe fire danger | Sky News AustraliaQueenslanders are being told to brace for severe fire danger across the state, with authorities warning conditions could spark more catastrophic bushfires.\n\nDry, westerly winds have contributed to the severe fire danger - particularly in the Wide Bay Burnett, Darling Downs and the Coalfields. \n\nQueensland firefighters are boosting the number of water bombing helicopters on standby across the state in preparation. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia Resign ScottMorrisonMP sunriseon7 9NewsGoldCoast 10NewsFirstSyd Aitch_El
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'Melbourne Cup should unite Australia not divide it' | Sky News AustraliaRacing editor at The Daily Telegraph Ray Thomas says the Melbourne Cup is “still Australia’s great race” and should 'unite us rather than divide us because it’s a cultural icon”. \n\nVictoria Police officers have been preparing for a fresh wave of protests outside Flemington Racecourse on Tuesday. \n\nAnimal activists have promised to hold demonstrations after marching on the parade on Monday.\n\nMr Thomas told Sky News the racing industry “has made a lot of inroads in the last few years, particularly with animal welfare and the re-homing of retired race horses”. \n\n“When it comes to the Melbourne Cup, sure everyone has a right to protest but this is Australia’s day and you hope this race unites the country rather than divides it,” he said.\n\nImage: Getty Yeah nah, it used to be. Nowadays it's just a cruel, wasteful grubby event. What else do the left want to destroy 😡
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'Australia should get its house in order' to benefit from R-CEP deal | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Peta Credlin says “we've got to get our own manufacturing and agricultural house in better order” within Australia, so the nation can “take full advantage” of the new trade deal signed by Scott Morrison in Bangkok.\n\n15 Asia-Pacific nations, including Australia, have accepted the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement, which is set to cover 30 per cent of global gross domestic product and nearly half the world's population.\n\n“There’s been a lot of hype today about the signing in Bangkok overnight,” Ms Credlin said. \n\n“We're told it's good but of course we don't know that for sure, at least we won't know it for some months until the text of the agreement our government has signed is made available,” she said. \n\nMs Credlin stressed the importance of water, and building the dams to store it, in order for the nation to be able to grow high quality products such as food and fibre, to then “sell to the rest of the world”. \n\nImage: Getty \n 🤦🏻♂️ Who is going to invest in manufacturing in a country that is going to rely on very expensive unreliable renewable energy. And let's not begin to talk about labour costs, the free trade agreement is another one way street. House in better order? What does that mean..flood regional and rural Australia with desperate cheap foreign workers...and the same in manufacturing?
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Australia's emissions will 'dramatically drop' under the Coalition | Sky News AustraliaRenewable energy expert Dr Matthew Stocks says Australia is on track to meet its Paris Agreement targets under the Coalition.\n\nDr Stocks told Sky News host Chris Kenny the energy market was about to see a drop in carbon emissions due to a surge in renewable energy projects.\n\n“There is a really strong pipeline of wind and solar coming which is going to make a huge difference in the amount of emissions in our electricity sector,” he said.\n\n'We are going to see dramatic drops of electricity emissions.' \n\nDr Stocks - a Research Fellow ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science – authored research which found Australia is on track to meet its international climate commitments.\n\nAustralia has vowed to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 24 per cent of 2006 levels by 2030.\n\nIt is one of the only signatories to the Paris Agreement on track to meet its commitment with European counties like France facing difficulty hitting targets.\n Uh huh.... Ha ha Labor and Greens !!! The Coalition government is on track to meet Paris Targets and their climate plan is working.
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'No matter the facts, the ABC thinks Australia won't make Paris targets' | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny says “the narrative from the ABC has been pretty clear, whatever you think of the Paris target, it looks like we will fail to meet it”. \n\nReferencing a recent Four Corners post, and an address made by reporter Nick Kilvert, Mr Kenny was critical with statements made that most projections have suggested Australia will ‘overshoot our 2030 target without some drastic reductions’.\n\n“The national broadcaster has always been fascinated by climate change issues and has given great prominence to claims Australia won't meet its Paris target,” Mr Kenny said. \n\nImage: Getty Meanwhile the Coalition government’s inaction neglect mismanagement incompetence and failures on energy and water policy and infrastructure will see rivers and towns run dry and major widespread blackouts this summer and beyond Meanwhile the Coalition government plan to increase their flooding of Australia with foreign workers in more categories and more occupations..now going to flood high unemployment regional and rural communities with foreign workers too Meanwhile the Coalition government tells drought stricken farmers farmers to “JUST SELL YOUR FARMS” presumably to the LNP’s greedy mining foreign corporations and Chinese mates
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Melbourne Cup protesters are 'un-Australian pests' | Sky News AustraliaMedia commentator Prue MacSween has dubbed equine rights activists as “pests” who are “un-Australian”.\n \nMacSween lashed out at protesters who intend to protest at Tuesday’s iconic Melbourne Cup race meet. \n \n“It's just incredible that people on this vegan-anti everything campaign - who obviously have no jobs and rely on us to keep them in this space - are creating so much havoc,” she told Sky News host Peta Credlin.\n \n“It's an iconic day for all of us… it is the race that stops the nation.\n \n“I hope we all just ignore these people tomorrow. They’re just pests.”\n Hands up if you care what that opinionated dinosaur thinks? WATCH THIS 👇
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