If you want to live among the trees then expect more destruction

Thousands of hectares of wallum scrub and once open forest in the Sunshine and Gold Coast hinterlands and seaside suburbs were razed this week in what was a preventable inferno.

Many homes and the historic Binna Burra Lodge in the Gold Coast hinterland were lost to wildfire. Where were the fire breaks? Where was the back burning in the days or weeks before?

Historic Binna Burra lodge destroyed by wild fire in Gold Coast hinterland. Urban dwellers are unable to understand or cope with a state experiencing severe drought conditions, caused by on ongoing cyclic solar activities. They should switch of their televisions, stop listening to Greens propaganda  Pics-ABC

The Labor state government’s poor management record of forest and national park reserves across the state will see more of these dangerous conflagrations especially during long periods of dry weather.

The Deputy Premier, comrade Jackie Trad, a Green tragic, was quick to blame ‘climate change’ but she is bereft of any intelligence to know the widespread hot ember storm was caused by her UN-inspired polices of no firebreaks, no heavy machinery, no hazard reduction burning and no cattle grazing on any land.

These fires simply are a repeat of the widespread destructive wildfires which burnt out nearly half a million hectares north of Bundaberg in 2018.

Until this state is rid of urban politicians who have no understanding of the garden bed next door let alone the vast uninhabited areas of Queensland we will continue to witness devastating environmental damage never before seen in the history of the ‘sunshine state.’

In the ample dramatic ‘never let the facts get in the way of a good story’ footage, televisions across the nation flashed bulletins of wildfires and ember storms which caused spot fires some 300 or more metres distant.

Water bombing by a 737, an extreme waste of taxpayers money in most circumstances. Fire prevention costs almost nothing and a change of Labor’s devastating UN-inspired policies would prevent wildfires destroying property.

Climate change is the culprit, say the hopeless Greens, but the climate changes every day so this stupidity carries no water. The state is in drought, a continuous cycle of weather patterns caused by differing solar activity.

Wet sclerophyll or rainforest encroaches on open forest, and a succession of wet years followed by a drought can allow so-called rain forest to burn if sufficient detritus is on the forest floor.

Witness the wanton waste of taxpayer money near Lockhart River Aboriginal community in the electorate of the state member of parliament Cynthia Lui from Yam Island.

A fire, presumably lit by Aborigines, which got into the Iron Range ‘rain forest’ is being water bombed by aircraft.  This area of Cape York Peninsula has an annual rainfall during the wet season of more than a metre and a half.

Meanwhile bushfire-fighting practices in the south east corner under the direction of the urban fire department were doomed to fail before they began.

Where were the experienced incident control officers from northern Rural Fire Services?

Thee urban brigades with well-paid staff won’t allow battle toughened rural firies near the control base. They want unpaid volunteers at the fire front.

Urbane firefighters generally have little concept of fighting large bushfires. These firemen are virtually ‘pissing into the wind.’ It is obvious these flames cannot be doused but the fire has already been halted by the concrete carpark wall, so why waste water and endanger lives? Where are the fire breaks, back-burning and what happened to hazard reduction burning?

 

 

More importantly nowhere in urbanised TV bulletins was a bulldozer or grader to be seen or were any worthwhile fire breaks.

In hinterland grazing country, when composted, dry kikuyu pastures and cow pats burn the fire can only be contained by graded firebreaks.

Reports of nearly metre-high piles of dry litter on forest floors interwoven with a lantana jungle are a result of an absence of hazard reduction burning over many years.

Because the national park service and the Labor state government generally won’t allow firebreaks to be constructed in its millions of hectares of wasteful parks estates, then without hazard reduction burns we have just experienced the result.

The Liberal Party fares little better having lost its way decades ago.

Time to take back the reins people(sheeple?).