Post List with Summary by Category Bushfires

By Roger Underwood AM Environmental activists and green academics in Western Australia are pushing the government to make radical changes…

The Bushfire Front Inc has produced a submission to the Federal government in relation to their inquiry into the impact…

By Viv Forbes Green extremists plan to convert Australia into "tree heaven". They will bully this through, no matter what…

Here is a dramatization of the events surrounding the destruction of the town of Dwellingup in Western Australia in January…

By Roger Underwood When Prime Minister Morrison announced that there would be a Royal Commission into the 2020 bushfires in…

Experienced land and fire managers from eight community groups across Australia have jointly written to the Prime Minister urging the…

From the Howitt Society: Dear Prime Minister, The Bushfires Royal Commission – providing no hope for the future The Royal…

By John Shanahan Denver, Colorado, USA Dear friend, I am glad that you are having a beautiful autumn in New…

Real goal is to avoid responsibility for policies, and increase control over energy, lives, property By Paul Driessen In what…

By Viv Forbes A NSW Bushfire Enquiry concluded: “Hazard-reduction burns should be greatly increased”. What a breath of good sense.…

A submission to The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements Presented by Viv Forbes On Behalf of The Saltbush…

By Vic Jurskis Lieutenant Watkin Tench arrived at Warrane (Sydney Cove) with the First Fleet in 1788. Tench described a…

'We saw this coming for years': Farmers take legal action after fires. Six farmers are preparing to take legal action…

By Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club. Considerable publicity is being given to an article by Byron Lamont and…

By Roger Underwood Introduction Anyone who has studied elementary physics, or basic fire science, is familiar with the Fire Triangle.…

A Briton’s perspective on the Australian bushfires. The bearded bushman at the three-minute mark reveals how people living in the…

By Tom Harris Recent climate change has not caused Australian bushfires. Besides the fact that many of the fires are set by people, either…

By Dr Tim Fatchen It's ironic that a former Olympic alpine skier should be the one offering a private bill…

By Viv Forbes 24 January 2020 Australian Fire-lighters come in six colours – yellow, black, white, blood red, dark green,…

By Viv Forbes 20 January 2020 Politicians hide behind enquiries – their magic answer to all problems, especially bushfires. Announcing…

By Viv Forbes 20 December 2019 Too many recent headlines say: “A fierce new bushfire is burning in the XYZ…

9 December 2019 By Viv Forbes No one should be surprised that our bush is ablaze and our cities are…

Tempered by Fire: Stories from the firefighters and Survivors of the 1961 Western Australian Bushfires is a book published by…

House of Representatives - Select Committee Report into the 2002-03 Australian bushfires. During the Summer of 2003, a total of…

By Ian Hitchcock, Dalmeny. On New Year’s Eve, I woke early to the sound of television reports on the building…

Greg Mullins’ [former Fire & Rescue NSW Commissioner] came out the closet about a year ago and joined Flannery’s Climate…

by Jacob Rebek, January 2020 SBS and ABC news are claiming that bushfires are definite proof that Climate Change is…

by Dr David Blackall January 2020 Over four years, from 2013 to 2017, before retiring from teaching university-based journalism, I…

By Rado Jacob Rebek - Geologist - 12 Jan 2020 According to an article in The Weekend Australian 11-12.1.2020, page…

It has all happened before: In the State of Victoria, the month of January of the year 1939 came towards…

Green Folly locked up 11% of Australia in a tinder-box of bushfire fuel, much of which is now burnt or…

The Bush Fire Henry Lawson, 1905 Ah, better the thud of the deadly gun,    and the crash of the bursting…

by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club There was a time when Australian foresters kept Australian forests safe and…

Those who don’t know history… On Black Friday 1939, on a day of high wind and savage 45 degree heat…

From the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, State Government of Victoria, a document listing historical bushfires, deaths, losses and areas…

The following is an excerpt from Jennifer Marohasy's blog: https://jennifermarohasy.com/2020/01/it-has-been-hotter-fires-have-burnt-larger-areas/ The historical evidence indicates fires have burnt very large areas…

Listen to a man who has been fighting fires for 52 years. Brian Williams, the captain of the Kurrajong Heights…

Originally published: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2019/02/bushfire-management-wisdom-versus-folly/ By Roger Underwood Many years ago, still a young man, I watched for the first time the…

By Viv Forbes The Power of the Torch “There can be few if any races who for so long were…

By Viv Forbes (Background: Australian Government promises A$11M for more flashy water bombers.) In a furious firestorm with high winds,…

By Roger Underwood The sudden outcry in the media from "fire chiefs", asserting that the current bushfire crisis is the…

By John Mikkelsen, Noosa The Noosa Mayor Tony Wellington blames "climate change" for the spate of fire emergencies recently facing…

By Viv Forbes Congratulations to Graham Lloyd (Aus 12 Nov) for pointing out that Greens are responsible for the incendiary…

Author and Source Unknown Probably if you are from Melbourne you will know this history….. Black Thursday Bushfires - 6th…

By Viv Forbes Australia is a land of deserts, droughts, floods, bushfires, flammable forests and fire-prone grasslands – these conditions…

By Peter L Ellis. November 2019 My great-grandfather's brother, Nehemiah Bartley born in London in 1830, was a consummate adventurer…

By Dr. John Happs Australia has always experienced droughts, floods and bushfires and it is immoral for those with vested…

By Steve Goreham Originally published in Washington Examiner. California nears the end of another disastrous wildfire season. Governor Newsom and…

Bushfires are normal events in this season in tropical and sub-tropical latitudes of the southern hemisphere – in Australia, Africa…

by Viv Forbes Carbon dioxide must be an almighty gas – it gets blamed for almost every human disaster. Now…

By Anonymous If a tree burns in a forest does anyone care? 1,000,000 hectares of land was burnt in the…

by Roger Underwood AM, Chairman of the Bushfire Front1 In a recent article in The West Australian newspaper, Murdoch University…