These "meddling do-gooders" sound like the types who think doing their bit for the environment is about slapping an 'I heart nature' sticker on the rear bumper of their Range Rovers/Porsche Cayennes/Ford Explorers.

haha. Love it. Not quite how I'd thought of it, but probably not far off. The kind…

She's best thought of as the Ann Coulter of the Antipodes.

Or for an analogy closer to home; Garth George in a Dress.
'scuse me I just have to go and throw up.

the Herald online pays due respect to David Hayward

Do you mean Ana Samways being paid for his words without any attribution?

here is a quote I found online

Classy. It's one thing quoting a sentence in the middle of a long article, but not when the sentence is the whole…

All Miranda Devine "opinion pieces" should come with the warning:

Written Without the Aid of a Functioning Intellect

Just as I suspected. She's best thought of as the Ann Coulter of the Antipodes.

Matthew Poole: These "meddling do-gooders" sound like the types who think doing their bit for the environment…

Both links are from the discussion under a wildly shrill the-greenies-dunnit post from Poneke

Ugh a moderated blog. Which means this poneke is a plonker who just likes ego massaging posts, or contrarian posts he can moderate, think up a rebuttal to and then put both up.

He seems to…

Fire has, in many parts of the world, been part of the natural order of things.

Controlling bush is a much more modern, and not particularly 'natural' concept.

By "controlling bush" I meant allowing fire to do its thing rather than attempting to preserve the "greenery", such as it is…

an opinion piece in the SMH

All Miranda Devine "opinion pieces" should come with the warning:

Written Without the Aid of a Functioning Intellect

Farmers know that fire is necessary, that bush must be controlled.

There's a two part statement.

Fire has, in many parts of the world, been part of the natural order of things.

Controlling bush is a much more modern, and not particularly 'natural' concept.

So fuel reduction burning (which aims to reduce ground material) would not have stopped the spread of these fires through the canopy; but it should have reduced the chance of the fires…

The lobby against it has been more in the line of middle-class conservationists.

A state of affairs that would surprise me not in the slightest. Real conservationists understand that fire is part of the natural order. Since the human cost of allowing fire to burn in all its splendour is…

I live in hope of one day seeing a piece about motorbikes soundtracked by the Manic Street Preachers' 'Motorcycle Emptiness', but I don't like my chances.

We'll bear it in mind ...

And on the topic of a totally different bunch of crusaders, an opinion piece in the SMH lays the blame for the death toll in Victoria squarely at the feet of the green lobby, and its absolutist stance against "prescribed burning".

This idea has gained currency in the past few…