Fire policy shift: Government says “hazard reduction” to stop fires. Labor says “Carbon market”

A nation watches the fires: Today is rumored to be as bad as New Years Eve. Temperatures above 40 C. Humidity levels very low. But a cooler change is coming late. Best wishes for everyone on the front line. Suddenly, many people are taking “hazard reduction”. If only it weren’t too late.

Meanwhile the Labor Party still hope to reduce bushfires with an international carbon market. Good luck with that.

A carbon market is form of carbon tax that will make their friends at the UN and Goldman Sachs happy, but probably won’t impress the workers the Labor party used to serve.

The pushback to Green policies picks up speed: Bushfires: NSW south coast residents furious at ‘lessons unlearned

Greg Brown, The Australian

South coast residents are seething at the NSW government and councils for failing to take adequate precautions in hazard reduction burning. Numbugga locals Stephen and Janet Lennon said authorities failed to learn the lessons from a bushfire in the forests last August.

“They fly helicopters over there and drop (water) bombs (over state-owned forests) but 90 per cent of the time they don’t even work. And then they cast it as […]