Ten years ago, Ray Evans wrote in Quadrant of the Black Saturday fires which razed his beloved bush cottage, obliterated nearby Marysville and claimed more than 30 innocent lives. Today, as Australia burns, his account of sane forest stewardship subverted by green ideology is more pertinent than ever

How is it that that the bush is so mismanaged, that fire-fighting budgets grow ever larger even as bushfires do the same. In 2009, months after the Black Saturday fires, Ray Evans detailed how the practical management of our countryside was captured by the left. His analysis is worth re-visiting

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Once the mainstay of Australia's economy, our wool industry has been laid low by market intervention, political imperatives and agrarian socialism. As author Charles Massy explains, it is a tragedy that need not have happened 

It is a constant refrain in our current political debate […]

Labor parliamentarians from outside the inner city electorates are now beginning to grasp the size of the tsunami which is coming towards them. They will have to take action soon or see the Labor Party swept out to sea, never to be seen again.

The ethanol scam is an outstanding example of the application of Green fantasy to the real world. And once it has been legislated into existence it is very difficult to undo the damage.

[Ray Evans gave this speech on October 7 at a […]