New year 2024

 The Current Labor government in Australia will not survive much longer because its dreaming in the clouds is unproductive ,  wasteful and ultimately at odds with sound ecological and economic tensions  - tensions that can and have worked in the past ; but which have been rejected and cancelled by rebels whose minds are still very busy, but whose feet have never touched the ground. 

Where Labor policy touches the earth science issues there are only destructive (and half baked )lightnings strikes . We are a rich country,  so we can survive a few disasters and misfires ( like the expensive adventure in old renewable technologies )
The chickens are coming home to roost and ruin for our children's inspiration and sound  investment planning .
Wise people do not build houses and roads when the simple jobs they are creating do not support families who would live in those houses. Tough thinking real world science in practice careers that would properly prevent disasters and mentor young people in the science of proper earth use MUST be our children's priority. I doubt it will be the priority of those who now exploit our eco ignorance and who are authorized to squander our savings.     

 Our lefts dependency for hope in environmental causes has caused them ( and even many "progressive conservatives" to live in dreamland with unproductive simple and mistargeted Green agendas.

As a resilience economist and on ground earth scientist,  I grieve deeply over the wasted opportunities over the last few decades to keep the countercultural energy of sound conservation alive . Neither the left nor the right know how to do this . 

The challenge of the people to understand is that we live in a culture that worships science but does not practice it is not new to some thinkers ( J Ellul)  but is huge  handicap for the West who only think they know things. and don't see the huge level of ignorance about how the world works .

 Instead of training scientists to solve problems, the desperados in charge employ people to dig holes and plant trees; unproductive and disrespectful in the Savannah  ( grassland )  ecosystem's and soils that are ours to manage and understand.

  Conservatives need to encourage, not grand earthwide solutions and specifications to complex and intertwinned ecological and economic (eg  greed need and access ) challenges but to invest in our children's future by mentoring them in carefilled interventions in both worlds. The medias false capture of a carbon dioxide evil must be ditched for a respectful reinvestment and review of more pressing issues.( I .Plimer Heaven and Earth ). 

It seems to me all effective imaginative conservatives and justice seeking rebels MUST know on what basis they are building by testing the scientific foundations http://cuttingedgecare.blogspot.com   
Being typical human beings, they will run off from the discipline of being under that - to name their own solutions .  

Conservation is complex

 And requires a precision that polys never have . The precision of balancing competition and cooperation in nature .
See the mess and evil  that Wyatt and Western Australia are creating by trying to control producers using consultants- people whose qualifications to control must always be able to be questioned by the public justice system. 

How possums feel about Vegans

 

As I said in the previous post, I love the passion of young people. I just want them to make good sustainable use of their efforts on the earth .

I don't want them to fall into the very same traps as their parents; being mere reactionaries ,being softies , rejecting industrial models for self sufficiency ,living on sentiment ,  confusing need with greed . not acting up to real hard nature driven choices like death and when to kill sow and do things that cost you .( and all the rest like the cynicism that plaques the oldies who were not effective and chose unrealistic world views )      

Today I want to remind you of the hard choices that anyone faces who wants to help us grow food sustainably and find independence and build community . 

Scene is in Melbourne suburbs. Snail mail hits a letterbox  


Its a               GET WELL CARD 

From 

The Diabetic Possums Association DPA 
Sorry to hear you are not well . Neither are we . 

The DPA would like you to cut down your fruit trees and other now popular species of plants as our members are getting sick , dependent and unhealthy,  like you  the house occupants.  
While at first our members liked the idea of you going to the supermarket to get your fruit,  we can see that your practices are not helping create a sustainable environment for ALL of us ( the big idea here)  
 
Please stop being so  nice and go back to putting up fences and culling any risk of overpopulation and starvation and disease before it happens in our "to be agreed" territories . 
 
 That' s what we see as YOUR JOB in this neighborhood , Why do you neglect it? 
 We are just animals who operate on instinct .  We notice you are far too vulnerable to how you feel on the day and wonder what good your mind is doing for you. 

Sorry  to hear that your mind seems to be  in a state of confusion . here's help 


 

Bless all those young people with a passion to do good and tell the truth , but God , please give them wisdom on just how

 

Anyone who doesn't believe in the good Creator of their children  need only be reminded that God gives them enough  common sense to argue with their parents when teenagers .

"No you don't know everything ,and don't me expect me to accept all your smug cynicism about others , your half baked Marxism greed envy and whatever you use to justify your unsustainable reasoning and impulsive actions over the years  " .

"Be kinder and listen better " they rightly say  . 
Hypocrisy comes to mind - the disconnect of your words with your actions

And if we are lucky,  they will take the passion , if not the rickety structures of knowledge we offer them forward . 
In their 20's that passion for good , being kind and questioning their parents maybe the only common sense they have .As this blog states,  really caring for the environment outside the eco outside our home means  slogans are out and study is in.   
No more noise from the attention seekers , the guilt ridden and the cynical salesmen 



Young people are a source of optimism
Look at the wonderful things our young people  have learnt that we didn't already To buy non caged eggs has meant THEY have finally taken out  the Marxist focus on the big bad industry by demonstrating the old Christian principle that we do have choices ( and mere determinisms are traps ) 

We don't and won't be ruled by mere prejudices and fears  of things coming that we haven't seen yet.

 

We sadly can see by your panic about this and that, that you haven't got past first base in understanding sustainable life or  recommending any way forward through determinism and fear .

If  we humans are all wrong in our choices, what hope is there and why publish hope here ? 
I started these blogs over twenty years ago with the main aim of trying to get my generation to invest in the education training and career development of our children so they could help people on the land make place driven consensus decisions that respected the life components in there area.
Today those who have never done any of this properly call for a change for the most unsustainable and costly changes in the world - its not going to happen just as net zero is not going to get us back to Nirvana  either in climate  or hope that sustains . 

What can you do ? 
Keep in touch on http://thiselection.blogspot.com 
One thing we can all do in the west, especially  is to change the voting system- to give producers the voice they have lost through industrialization  and tertiary job creation  
Our democracies  has been controlled for decades  by a few noisy people in the cities who insist the know things about the environment . 
The only way we can change the dominance of the ignorant self preoccupied noisy extremists who then and now still  occupy the margins at elections is for our young people to join a party which addresses the margin control problem for their party and who are prepared gives proper representation to those who know how to produce things and do it with care and sustainably 


Keep in touch on http://thiselection.blogspot.com 
Bless all those young people with a passion to do good , but God , please give them wisdom on just how 

Hidden mysteries in Humidity -

For years now,  the press have kept control about what is said about climate;  about how it works  and how and why it changes  ,Unfortunately for the fear prone public who feed on this endangered species,  the fact that the press wouldn't know how it works , is clouded by the fact that many things about the gases and fluid dynamics around us , just simply can't be seen.


We post moderns FEEL  things rather than think things through. We are prone to think in a superficial way about all the facts that crowd and cloud our days..We feel temperature, but we can't see humidity.

We post moderns feel things rather than think things through. We are prone to think in a superficial way about all the facts that crowd and cloud our days..
Take a simple reality like humidity.
Compare it to temperature, which we can all feel; minute by minute and day by day.
We all felt the temperature this summer , but we missed seeing the water in the air .
Even though 80 % of the world’s surface is covered by it in a form that we can see , we often don’t see it hovering over our dry land . The sun and spin quietly move it into higher and lower positions on the earth . We don’t easily see that the air is fairly full of water , most of the time . It only takes a little push and the wonderful medicine will drop right out
We didn't see the water in late 2019, when some felt “ the hottest and driest summer ever”. We missed seeing the substantial fact that it was smoky at the same time as the bushfires were on .
We were , as a country , running on our feelings, not sound science. The reason it was smoky is because high humidity limits combustion . It wasn’t as dry and dangerous as we felt it was. Despite all the feelings about it , the earth does not warm just because we burn fossil fuels . The higher humidity from combustion actually helps cloud out the sun’s daily warming effect .
We didn't see the water in the air this February either. Our newly wetted land couldn't shake the rain and the clouds because it kept rising up to fall all over again.

When I look at my still green tomatoes  and wish the sun would come through and do its wonderful work again,  I also think of the wonder of those simple three amigos C N and O ( Carbon Nitrogen and Oxygen ) and their  not so simple friend the Proton .

Someone very smart made H and O to work together so well  that it absorbs heat as a liquid and yet, as a gas, it universally lets the heat and the light through.  

More on our failed education system . Instead of building understanding post moderns risk breaking it down with cynicism

ABC non science

Philip Adams surprised himself last week  by confessing that he had never,  in all his 30 years of advocacy of conservation ; including on his farm ( No thanks from this pedant King ) never thought about fungi . How pathetic . Adams has developed  a love of truffles " He had a real scientist coralled for a while on his late night live show ---  to tell him what he wanted to know to .........
What Adams didn't know was --Fungi ( and ants ) are the key benefactors of the Left and the no sequestration Greens Forests policies.
 These are policies that don't work for CC and that have down sides for everything from soils to water quality.  Too bad if something in Nature doesn't fit the perfect theoryi.Too bad if less than half the story is told . I love fungi too"

 So what have the ABC left out in their blinkered approach to science ?  They say they  love science but they don't do science .
As GK Chesterton said,  it dangerous and limiting to love something for a reason . ABC nonscientists  love science for a reason;Their own reason/s They see it as the key to perfectibility when it is often only a key to more pedantry . A stumbling block to careers and growth -Little did Adams know that having a real soil scientist on the ABC was dangerous !!!

 Time the ABC got a new crew who know enough to know that they don't know it all !
The only way to really love something is to still love it when it tells you something you didn't want to hear.  I love fungi too!

Labor could follow Greens into limbo land

Neither Greens or Labor know when to weed the garden . Neither are they in their ignorance really sure we should even weed  the garden; A lazy lot . Both are therefore becoming so heavenly minded they are of little earthly use .   on the environment and other so called high moral ground issues .
They  talk Climate change but have only course market mechs to deal with it .They talk that minorities must come first and the rest of us pay for their indulgence .spoiling the kids and breaking up families ,
For thinking people and real eco scientists their mind and motivation implication games are the stuff of murder and suicide .
Nothing harder to deal with than the irrational argument in the powerful  esp if they want to take away your livelihood but haven't got the guts to pay you out .Come to the door with free lightglobes but with a letter to kill your livelihood. Culpable carelessness
 Neither Labor nor greens have the credibility to deal with The science briefly described below The science of weeding regeneration and renewal and recycling in soils. (Agriculture is not all bad as they suggest ) Many will have to answer one day for disrespecting the profession that feeds them 

Hamlet would be saying the same thing he said of the ignorant and sentimental parents he had ;  whose concern is not the truth ( the full truth is about weeding, regeneration, renewal and recycling)  but whose concern IS Staying in power ; who JUST  want to sit in the head seats in Canberra.
 
Mark BUTLER Must change their minds about chasing the Greens 

If Joel Fitzgibbon and Mark Butler had any integrity they would say to their party – “we can’t do this “.
what’s this ? you ask - Win votes in the city at this election by having another careless go at the country. Butler must recant on his pledge to have more controls on land use and land users. "The greatest evil is done in the name of the best intention " 
There is no need for more legislation to control clearing of forest to agriculture  Only a few acres of freehold forest is ever likely again to be converted to  agriculture in the future as the State legislation is tight . We know it appeals to the city at election time to spread more panic amongst the city. Fitzgibbon  could say “ We, unlike the Greens, happen to know that blokes featured on Landline mostly just want to clear wattles and overmature growth from their grazing properties . These trees are only temporary and only grow because their land is not overgrazed.”  we would be risking our integrity at the very gates of those we say we care about ( Milk at 14cents a litre)

“The farmers are looking after this grazing land ,and if they are not, their leases would be cancelled – been that way for decades .  We should be supporting this form of freehold and leasehold rangeland management, not poking our noses in with ignorance and fear like the Greens do.  These areas are natural rangeland ecosystems where grass is the dominant vegetation”. Why are the fearful trying to stop the farmers from doing what the fungi , fire and ants will do anyway .Why don’t you prosecute these animals and the elephants of Africa for sending the carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere?  Don't know basics about Carbon!!
if you in the party were serious about a CC policy that works,  you would have had a  tax on city tractors yesterday . No I said,  a decade ago !  It’s not about integrity , it’s about winning votes.  Bandt would be history if the Greens had some integrity. Thankfully his electorate can occupy high ground and get around on bikes and Public transport   

If Fitzgibbon and Butler had any integrity they would say to their party” we can’t do this.”  “This what the Greens do   -win arguments on appearances like the picture of dark steam coming out of cooling towers and this  jumping in and accusing others of some abuse without studying the ecosystems and management processes involved ; and  without mentioning city tractors in cc policy.

 This is allocated managed rangeland and unless you want to buy the whole lot back you are saying they can’t control weeds and regenerate pasture like the aborigines did and do. “
If Fitzgibbon and Butler had any integrity they would say to their party,   we  don’t want any more of our agents killed on the farmers doorsteps trying  to tell the farmers  they are getting free lightbulbs but taking away their livelihood. We would be more honest to say the United Nations require us to buy back your farms and then do it – if we really believed it was such a necessary policy. “

If Fitzgibbon and Butler had any integrity they would say to their party” we can’t do this”. “We’d be no better than the Greens. The Greens would do anything to get into power –They don’t care about casting snide on a minority who appear to be doing the wrong thing but are not; It Is so easy to pick on one group and say they are ones to worry about .A CC policy that would work must involve all of us .
 If Fitzgibbon and Butler had any integrity they would say to their party” we can’t do this”   “If this is how we win elections I want no part of it.” .   

We hope the people of Australia will have some integrity in July and will say to the parties who live on snide and suspect criticism of others.
“If that is how they win elections, I want no part of it “

Lame Ducks quacking about conservation

All the bleating about the need for climate change action has gone a little soft and fluffy . One reason could be that no one dares talk openly about ACTIONS  ( carbon tax inducements , incentives )   Its just  "the need for climate change action",,,,, "the need for climate change action",.....  

I have thought of starting my own pathetic campaign  " the need for better fathers and mothers "
its not mentioned first in Bills campaign .....but last

None of this is news to me .
The Greens and Greenlabor will go down with a whimper on this important critical matter  because they whimper into it.
 Conservation is hard work and its got to work to work.
Scenario of misguided expenditure on conservation 
Every australian home could have panels and low energy lights and we still couldn't have toast in the morning if the Greens have their way with our coal. for what end . Co2 that may well be resequestered.

And yet most of  the money for conservation goes in grants.and all parties agree . What is this ?Conservation is like welfare .  No wonder TRUMP is popular in the USA . All our parties are just all talk on conservation .

Feelings R not good enough to make us tough enough

As a resource management planner with Vic Dept's of Env for over 3 decades , its clear the public debate by The political GREENS is feelings based and often devoid of the competence that is essential to really care .   By allowing feelings to rule  they cannot absorb the hard edged issues . There approach is not  whole ecosystem planning  but particular animal or problem focused .  Such an approach is wasteful and distracting cf  Ecologically focused economics. 

The public effect of taking their feelings lead  is to insult those who study to show themselves approved .
Because public opinion is based on feelings and those feelings relate to desires within that group to deny our needs for food , deny death and the real difficulties of living here , their insistence on stopping things is often impractical , unreasonable and quite wrong. Their choice to become vegans is fine  - but most people will use their well designed eye teeth  .
Because many in the remote public audience don't like the idea of death and suffering ( who does ) they also don't really study things properly , so how can they really care . Soft may feel good but its no frame for future toughness in the real world . 
Many of those full of feelings don't know HOW to manage any animals in their habitats .  They presume to tell us onground custodians that they know and we don't. It's time to stop the rot so our children and those on the ground can again have a career as truly competent carers.

We as land managers HAVE to deal with death. Our public land planners have been forced to adopt non culling policies that are absolutely sound to minimize the suffering of animals .see the koalas starving at Cape Otway story athttp://swearthnews.blogspot.com

Super stupid seriuos risks from trees and fearburdened polys

I love trees but I don't worship them like some do.
I love trees but I respect them enough to know this ---- they like me will die and that many quite nice looking native trees already have fungi and ants eating away at them inside .

Probably half of the trees in our native forests are like that 
Here is a post I made yesterday . I hope you understand the reasons why I make the accusation and why its time to change things 

I don't pretend like some that we must let them die completely before we touch them . They are not sacred objects to me even though they have been treated as such by some officers of government .
So what is the government doing to make sense of tree management in the state of Victoria? - sweet nothing and fulla fear  would describe the lot of them
The problem they should have dealt with 15 years ago is some careless legislation introduced into the planning schemes over 30 years ago. It implies native vegetation must be "retained " .This has been widely interpreted as "preserve it"  like we do with museum specimens ,  Fine , retain native communities  but be realistic - not shallow ;  they like us die and must be replaced with new .

NVR legislation was one of the most ignorant and blinkered pieces of legislation ever introduced into the planning act in  Victoria and successive governments are still 30 years later , afraid to deal with the silly myth and focus that now surround it .Clearly our politicians are too afraid of a public reaction and too stupid to investigate why this lie has become truth to be promoted by their very own statute .

Too many tragedies happen all around us , so I have to speak up - I used to approve applications under the Native Vegetation Retention legislation . The death of a toddler overnight in The Patch reminds me there are very dangerous trees which should be removed right across our suburbs , but are not . I can say this because however big the storm and however healthy the tree,  there are far too many dangerous trees being left by Council officers who dare to presume they should stay. Trees have become untouchable almost sacred in their eyes and its partly because the original legislation was dreamed up by ignorant and blinkered preservationists .
Worse , the Libs have not twigged why its had such a bad effect on public risk evaluation . I have nothing against leaving trees,  but the prevailing wisdom that they should be left BEFORE rot gets hold of them in them is rubbish.Some people want to live in a world where there is no surgery . oh dear - would be nice!

NVR  was intended to stop mass clearing and its now just largely a relic that supports the nonsense talk about relics . I wrote recently to the Napthine government and they did nothing . I am writing again to remind my local member that "some of these deaths are on your heads" because you allow untrained officers in council to administer this legislation and its now unworkable frame   ;Its an example too of legislation slotted into the wrong place - claims to be about planning but is far too determinative .   The legislation should be changed so this stupid name does not continue to worry and confuse people ;so that aim of the retaining habitat is the focus - not some tree that is destined to rot and become dangerous.,.A green faith where hey avoid talk of death is common but dangerous and their careless talk has engendered ignorant myths. .

What should YOU really worry about ?

Promised to try and add some direction to this important question sometime ......

. in the meantime -----explore     here is how this started  

Towards CONSENSUS and COMPETENCE on the environment

Labor continue to travel from hell and back in their attempt to follow the Greens lead . The Greens are talking about  some important issues,  but realistically,  they don't have their feet on the ground either in ecology or in its child-economy. Their worries lead to as many disastrous action ideas than any real ones around .
You think attempting to stop this slide on the first road into Apollo bay is overly ambitious? - how about Tony Burke creating the world biggest protection zones ?You think forthright Government leaders, rather than trained onground independent environmental health professionals know what they are doing?
Take Greenlabor's ridiculous plans and actions in the last  decade to make water . Who do they think they are? And , most importantly, why do many urban industry based people follow them ? Its like there is religious ( or if you prefer idealistic) element.driving a large part of the community mindset on this .
As a planner with lots of on ground experience in providing sustainable solutions, its clear the majority of people in our communities do not have an economic world  view big enough to cope with "the eco of the environment " I am not suggesting we try and change that quickly - just make sure the 1% who do work with nature in our country have some objective truly scientific and practical friends .So that , if you like, \\'the bleeding hearts\\\\' don't  keep driving dumb surgery and deadly bleeding in territory that is clearly not their own to know .  It doesn't take much .When Iwas doing the job I worked 3 Shires  by myself.
The critical question with environment is competence . How do we gain confidence in working with nature to know we are actually  working with nature - not against it . Playing with fire and risking the landslide ? This slide of hundreds of thousands of tonnes of loose soil has been under control now for 10 years after  we drained and resurfaced it . We aren't expecting to control nature,  just making sure we respect it .This is what  a production ecologist tries to do . How many of them are there in Australia in 2012 . Maybe a handful . Most of the people working on " environmental matters " are not allowed to show independent professional judgement , because they work for Greenlabor.
Incompetence and ill directed worry will be Greenlabor's legacy to Australia.
No one needs die as a result of landslide in Australia ( but they have)  Parliament just have to know what to do ; to have someone trained to focus on prevention in the complex local environment rather than panic and irresponsible consultant quickfiz driven solutions

Men in the industrial age are so used to controlling their working environment they  can easily forget there is a world outside where we have to obey the rules of nature. Farmers know this,  otherwise they wouldn't survive more than a year,  but they are only now 1% of the population . Who will join them in understandingand growing the understanding of the big picture ?; Who will join them without trying to drag the dumb baggage of 2 dimensional economics of most secondary industry with them . Governments need not another 1% of its people to work with farmers.  Just a few 100 production ecologists would do

Delicate or Resilient

At the heart of much unproductive debate on conservation this decade is the failure of the worriers to FIND OUT where the vulnerabilities of particular ecosystems lie . The actual job of assessing these boundaries is diminishing .
The only result that I think is possible without professional ecological engagement is eventual public indifference to the political squabbles run in ignorance and for political gain.
The interest in conservation can be expected, as its done in the last decade, to destroy that delicate profession.

Why banning exports of live animals won't work

The Greens (this week) seem to think the best way to stop bad behaviour is to ban it. They want to ban live exports of animals and will use any examples of bad behavoiur to try and lever an even bigger "seachange" in how we see and use meat and grazing animals.

The banning will not work because the greens are being hypocritical over this issue and the public will see through this eventually. The greens are happy to play politics and play with the truth instead of playing credible and cutting conservation; Short term gain, long term pain .

If the only issue was cruelty, the sheep living their last days on a comfortable cruise to the middle east would have more vets up in arms about their situation ; if any of those animals weren't enjoying the best feed they ever had as their teeth give out.
The greens conveniently ignore the nature facts that grazing animals provide an important and absolutely neccessary links in natural regeneration cycles for soils ,carnivores and omnivores .The conservation issue is not "What use but How use" and its time all competent conservationists say so .

If the only issue was cruelty the greens would admit they are also interested in stopping people eating meat , believing as many do ( and are entitled to ) that that is the right thing to do. Truth is the casualty of playing political games with the best intentions. Not right !

The banning will not work and should not work because its an insult to sound leadership. Quickfiz. I clearly do not accept the way some animals are being killed in Indonesia at the moment , but i give my only support to those within the meat and other industries of true care who work to gain compliance by working with people ( Samaritan road practice. If political action is necessary it must be based on the truth - "we do want to insist that our stock to be treated well, but we understand as mature adults that we can't do that without your open cooperation!") .
Sensible parents don't try to force adults or growing adults to do what they disagree with by banning it. Only careless wannabes think they can make people care. The rush to try to impose punitive methods is a sign of desperation, not real confidence in outcomewhich is the stuff or reality politics.
The game playing greens will gain a few quick fix votes out of putting a simple badge on their good intentions . But in the long term, the result will be anything but a better consensus over how to improve animal treatment. More stock taken from poorly managed grasslands ( compared to ours ) and a lot of kudos for very little credible and sustained change . What we are on about HERE

Every Australian should support WMG ( well managed grasslands ) just as we can clearly support WMF ( well managed forests)
Short term gain , long term pain is the current game of certain greens this week - the greens should know better

To ban live exports on the basis of bad behaviour by some should be seen for what it is - a denial of human freedom. Western democracy has always put freedom before control whenever possible . Its always a bit too easy to solve someone else's problem on some distant shore. If the greens were serious about reform they would take out the plank , work with people and take seriously the Gracious way we teach people in the West to work.

All parties MUST take conservation competence seriously to survive

The first 10 years of the new millennium will go down as "The decade of Who care's " in conservation. Who really cares anyway?- is it all too hard or all too simple ????
If you are just an onlooker to the practical and theoretical science questions let me make it perfectly clear .
You will have to look very carefully to make sure you find someone who speaks and acts like a scientist with competence. Media, arts grads, lawyers, economists, quickrich gurus and businesss knows best sorts let themelselves go on subjects they only half know. While their passion is welcome, their fanaticism is not. You do not solve such problems as simply as you suggest!

This was the decade when nearly all the political parties and green groups are prepared to sacrifice themselves on the altar of sacred objects and half baked reactions to tough conservation questions .. Its a series of decades when even leaders lose their heads in a race to say something or nothing about the elephants in the room Read on Macbeth . What do you think?

The Libs go to one extreme one week, while labor goes to another another week ?
Tony Burke - it seems to me, is on a winner this week ( talking about alpine grazing ) because the Libs are wishy washy on tackling the real objective stuff.I know the trial ends shortly - but the point is -- have a plan B that's bigger than Libs currently have ( hacked up version of old plans)
Mr Walsh and Mr Ramsay are living in the past - farmers need competent conservationists NOT clones defending everything they do.
It maybe that the Libs have got a decent brief for research, but what I have seen so far looks like whitewash or should we call it "blackwash" or backwash .The media have only got to take some nasty pictures of fenced in areas ( not fair but could happen) and Mr Walsh And Mr Baillieu will be "in trouble"

The Libs won't get anywhere by acting in reaction to the conservation excesses of the left. ( Our PM was right to to state greens policies as "extreme" but is Mr Walsh in Victoria acting a little on the extreme?)
The Libs can only survive by BUILDING their own unique brand of conservation competence ( full not just fire ) and avoid the impression they don't take it seriously , say with their " high country grazing trial" .( the brief i have seen on the DPI website does not seem to include a proper review of ecosystem resilience and biodiversity issues )
The thinking people of Australia rightly expect , not necessarily an EIS ( a dumb reactionary tool often ) or a fire driven response to everything ( how reactive can you get) , but a clear commitment to careful research and proper review in this sensitive landscape . I will be the first to state the acceptibility of grazing, but also the first to insist on how it must be done ( based on ALL applied research so far ) .