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Put Foresters Back in the Forests

Put Foresters Back in the Forests

Viv Forbes Executive Director, The Saltbush Club Viv Forbes has been an explorer and pastoralist in Queensland and NT for most of his long life. He has lit fires (accidentally and deliberately), and he and his wife have fought fires and had their camps, fences and pastures wiped out by

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The ‘Death’ of the Great Barrier Reef: Junk Science Strikes Again

The ‘Death’ of the Great Barrier Reef: Junk Science Strikes Again

Scientific claims are only worth the data they’re based on. In turn, that data is only as good as the methodology by which it’s collected. Among other things, experimenters should absolutely rigorously compare apples with apples. Measuring two different things, however similar they might be, and pretending that

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Taxpayer-Funded Media Controlling the Fires Narrative

Taxpayer-Funded Media Controlling the Fires Narrative

When the smoke finally clears from the fires burning along Australia’s east coast, there will be the inevitable government inquiries, almost certainly a royal commission. The findings of which will almost certainly be stealthily ignored. “The amount of prescribed burning occurring in Victoria is inadequate. it is concerned that

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Dickheads Cost Lives

Dickheads Cost Lives

Awareness and voices are raised in criticism of government officials who restricted firebreak cutting and exacerbated the loss of lives, property and animals in Australia’s ferocious bush fires. “We’ve lost two people in my family because you dickheads won’t cut trees down,” Warwick Spooner told Nillumbik Mayor

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Bushfire Inquiry Must Not Be a Government Smokescreen

Bushfire Inquiry Must Not Be a Government Smokescreen

Despite the predictable screeching of the climate cultists, ghoulishly trying to pump up the tyres of their clapped-out bandwagon by hitching it to the current NSW bushfires, the fact remains that it ain’t climate change wot dun it. The biggest proximate cause is the devastating drought which has gripped

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Things that Make Me Go Hmm

NZ Farming 13 December at 12:45 · My understanding of a Museum was it was a true and accurate record of history, facts, truth and science. Not some sort of fake news machine out to distort visitors whether they be tourists or Kiwis. Serious questions on the management need answering

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The Deadly Folly of the Precautionary Principle

The Deadly Folly of the Precautionary Principle

Just recently, one Tasmanian council had the guts to swim against the tide of local government virtue-signalling and almost unanimously reject a motion to declare a “climate emergency”. Despite the outrage of the green lobby, the council made the right decision. Firstly, there was no action plan attached to the

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Jacinda Ardern Bans Plastics Only to Make Herself Look Good

Jacinda Ardern Bans Plastics Only to Make Herself Look Good

In a post earlier this week, Jacinda Ardern Powered by Eight-year-olds, I commented on the futility of the latest unnecessary and useless plastics ban proposed by our Prime Minister and the fact that she makes decisions on the trot on the basis of the “many letters” she receives from children.

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Waste to Energy – Is That the Solution?

Waste to Energy – Is That the Solution?

Taking care of our environment and being good citizens of the planet we inhabit is basic common sense and to be fair, we Kiwis are generally pretty darned good at it. We don’t litter our own environment the way many other countries do and we are constantly self aware

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The ‘BLOOD Battery’ in Your Electric Car

The ‘BLOOD Battery’ in Your Electric Car

It’s striking just how thoroughly bourgeois is the climate change phenomenon, at every level from the Eton old boys behind Extinction Rebellion to the Greens-voting wealthy inner suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney. Climate change is the ultimate first-world problem, the almost exclusive preserve of the anxious middle-classes. The sort

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Why Sustainable New Zealand?

Why Sustainable New Zealand?

Sustainable NZ Sustainability is based on the principle that everything we need for our survival and well-being depends on our natural environment. It means meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Our focus on sustainability means that we would

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1080 Alternatives Funded & 1800 NEW Police

1080 Alternatives Funded & 1800 NEW Police

Press release: NZ First 1800 new police New Zealand First was proud this week to deliver on our Coalition Agreement commitment to add 1800 new police and make an exciting funding announcement for alternatives to 1080. On Thursday, Rt Hon Winston Peters attended Recruit Wing 332’s graduation, which brought

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