The national broadcaster is spruiking 'Fires', its six-part series on 2020's Black Summer, which I will leave to drama critics to evaluate. Episode Three, however, cannot be allowed to pass without comment, as its premise holds that global warming spawned the infernos. Given that serial wrongologist Tim Flannery is treated as a credible authority, no surprise there

When I joined the Foresters of Australia it was an organisation supporting experienced, pragmatic, scientific land management and healthy debate. As demonstrated by the rejection of the paper I was to have presented, yet another body has come to be dominated by politically correct groupthinkers prepared only to hear views that endorse the dogma of preconceptions

It’s hardly surprising that the latest research has ‘confirmed’ the view of academics who oppose regular and regulated burning of the bush in the interest of reducing ground fuels and that, according to the same theorists, experienced land managers don’t know what they’re talking about. It's a nice gig when you get to judge your own work

Foresters, pastoralists and those working with the bush are gobsmacked by certain academics' notion that mild fire can threaten biodiversity in a landscape safely maintained by Aboriginal burning for 40,000 years. But that's the way the grant money goes -- and why we'll burn again and again and again

Marsupials aren't generally reckoned among the more intelligent species, but the dim lights of their tiny brains still outshine the 'animal rights' activists who are their self-appointed defenders. Indeed, while your typical look-at-me-in-an-animal-costume protesters make a lot of noise, their ignorance of koalas, habitat and why the population rises and falls would fill volumes

As the fires of recent decades have shown, especially last summer's inferno, mismanagement of the bush has become very nearly a diabolic art. But not to worry, champion of wind turbines, eco rorts and rent seekers Matt Kean has saved the Blue Mountains' Wollemi pines from further threat. Such are his powers it required but a simple stroke of his mighty green pen

Even when our forests aren’t exploding in megafires they’re in very serious trouble, yet the required remedy wouldn't be difficult to implement. First, though, we need to divert a fraction of the expenditure wasted on the sort of self-perpetuating research that draws its funding from the pursuit of problems, not solutions

The summer's bushfires might have focused attention on the relationship between fuel loads and fire intensity. But no, precious little of that. Instead, with but a passing nod to fuel-reduction policies, the current royal commission is raving about climate change. Abandon hope, Australia -- we're going to burn all over again

A recent NSW parliamentary panel concluded koalas are facing extinction, that verdict being the product of green myths, flawed research and political barrow-pushing. The only thing the committee got right was that koalas are in trouble -- in large part due to the catastrophic policies that, sadly, have just been given a further stamp of approval