ENVIRONMENT New bushfire tragedies: when will we ever learn?*

Over the Christmas/New Year holiday period, Victoria and Western Australia were ravaged by bushfires that caused the loss of hundreds of houses and thousands of farm animals, though, thankfully, few lives.   Gary Featherston, chairman of the Victoria division of the Institute of Foresters Australia. The ABC and the Bureau of Meteorology – predictably – blamed “climate change”, and pointed to the higher temperatures and lower precipitation which accompani…

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