Native timber forestry does not harm the environment, but destroying an established 120 old industry does more harm than good to the environment and to Australian society.
How do the Greens and Teals think they’ll solve Australia’s housing crisis without wood?
Is this another one of those net zero solutions where the coal used to manufacture all those disposable ‘renewables’ is acceptable as long as its burned overseas? Perhaps the climate alarm switches off at the border where East meets West. So much for global climate solutions.
What about the jobs lost? What about the fire risks that come with shutting up forests and no longer managing them?
We’ve already had a taste of what green ideology does to our environment and it doesn’t take a genius to work out that fires need fuel.
The Greens and their climate crisis cronies seem more than happy to add that to the flaming wreck of Australian industries, jobs and the housing crisis.
These are tangible and more real than their manufactured climate fears.
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As a servant to the many different people who make up our one Queensland community, I speak in favour of Senator Duniam’s motion. The timber industry is an essential industry to maintain Australia’s way of life.
How can Labor Premier Andrews eliminate native timber production while at the same time Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is promising to build 30,000 new homes which require timber? As a famous robot once said, ‘That does not compute.’
Native timber forestry does not harm the environment. Sensible native timber logging has been going on in Australia for 150 years, and the forests are still here, the fauna and flora are still here.
Until these Labor and Greens ideologues declared war on sustainable timber harvesting, the jobs in the timber industry were still here, the communities that rely on these jobs were still here. Not any more—Dan Andrews has done them in: no jobs in forestry in Mr Dan Andrews’s socialist state of Victoria.
The truth is native timber logging disturbs a few per cent of the total forest area every year. Logging reduces the forest fuel loads to protect us from bushfires. We also saw how badly some areas of forest burned in the deliberately lit bushfires a few years ago, some areas have still not recovered thanks to Greens and teal policies—clearly, not areas that were logged and the fuel loads removed.
One Nation stands as a strong supporter of the logging industry and a strong supporter of humanity. Timber is essential.
An industry that has supplied timber, jobs and helped look after the forests. First Nation people began it. Taught it. Then along came people who learnt all their education in schools taught by people who never worked in these industries.
You are so right but what can you expect when you get Labor , Greens and Teals in power? They are a destructive force, lacking common sense and a sense of reality. They are destroying our once great country, selling us down the river to foreign investors and closing down Australian industries whilst also siding up to overseas powers and curtailing to them. They disgust me and I would go so far as to say they would disgust any thinking person.
Regards,
Diane Wilson
You are so right but what can you expect when you get Labor , Greens and Teals in power? They are a destructive force, lacking common sense and a sense of reality. They are destroying our once great country, selling us down the river to foreign investors and closing down Australian industries whilst also siding up to overseas powers and curtailing to them.They disgust me and I would go so far as to say they would also disgust many other thinking persons.
Regards,
Diane Wilson
Malcolm,
Before the invasion of Australia the indigenous population had and practiced the answer.
Check the documentation from the early explorers.
Many places were described as resembling open deer parks.
The indigenous population was “displaced”, their fire stick caring methods ceased and the vegetation left uncontrolled.
Australia needs to eliminate “clearing / harvesting” native forests and adopt cyclic plantation timber production in specified areas.
The native forest areas would be protected and maintained by reintroduction of indigenous practices.
The original inhabitants adopted cyclic cool fire clearing methods related to seasonal variations.
Present day “hazard reduction” procedures are too harsh, too hot and damaging.
We need to be prepared to accept some smoke to protect our overall environment.
Remember, the CO2 released by cool controlled burning would have been removed from the atmosphere a few years earlier. This CO2 would be recovered by fresh vegetation ready for the next cool burning cycle.
Enough said for the moment.
Col
Well col there are a number of points of view on your comments. Firstly, the fire stick farming was not practiced by all indigenous peoples. Tasmanian groups, Yuin nation, Kabi Kabi people etc. did not set fire to their environment and till this day their lands are predominantly green. Those who went against the original people and chose lazy ways of hunting slowly but surely caused desertification of their lands. They reduced and many cases destroyed diversity of flora and fauna. The whole of Terra Australis was once a land of forest resembling the Amazon as excavations concur. This one lie of burning being good for the environment is nonsense with the fragile top soil structure taking many years to form. This is required to retain moisture and the necessary biological ingredients for a truly healthy environment. Burning and killing of living creatures has never been an intelligent decision. Those who continue this lie should reconsider this situation with an open mind. The deliberate fire starting we are experiencing is a scourge of man.
Secondly. After millions of acres have now been clear felled by our ignorant ancestors and fellow Australians there is ample supply of land to replant with native species. Logging old growth forests is a crime against the last remaining remnants of our once paradise.. driven by greed as always. Just because the first foreign occupiers had no choice but to cut down “ancient trees” ,for shelter, does not mean we have learnt nothing in 200 years or are we still dumb pilgrims 🤷🏽♂️. The loggers did not have the right to cut down other peoples trees .. they still do not have this right. Is this the same as the fishermen who claim the right to decimate the ocean because their ancestors did? I expect more from intelligent “leaders” . Who are selling a country that was never theirs in the first place.
Hi Shane,
Thanks for a sensible reply without resorting to insults.
There are a few points that need to be raised.
One being not all of Australia was subject to “fire stick farming” There are areas of Tassie where the procedure could not be applied.
After all Tassie’s climate is very divergent to the northern regions of Aussie.
Point two, hundreds of millions of years ago Aussie was largely covered by rain forest like vegetation but the slow and consistent continental drift north placed us in a hotter and drier environment.
Point three, “fire stick farming” was seasonally applied to relatively small areas when the fire “would not get away”.
The slow, controlled and cool burn allowed time for native animals to escape and did not kill the mature trees.
Minerals from the local vegetation were returned to the soil as ash, the soil structure was not destroyed.
Point four, I have seen many areas where “logging” has been applied and these areas look more like deserts with most of the timber pilled up to be burnt.
The resulting fire destroying the soil in the vicinity of the burn pile.
Finally, point five, I fully agree many areas should be re vegetated as native forest with other specified areas being set aside for plantation native tree farming on a cyclical, sustainable basis.
Cheers,
Col
Nature is not static, but wildly fluid. Things change constantly.
Humans tend to see the various eco-systems as if they are museum displays and wrongly believe they must “manage” them to make sure they stay exactly the same for all time.
Native forest logging is incompatible with preserving out many endangered species and is also extremely damaging to Australian tourism. The various state forestry organizations lose many millions of dollars per year.
The Australian housing shortage is very easily cured by restricting immigration back down to sustainable numbers.
One Nation really needs to reexamine its environmental policies, and not leave conservation in the hands of the left.
I agree with Malcolm, we need to keep harvesting those forests otherwise we will be importing timber at high cost. It doesn’t effect endangered species as it takes wildlife factors into account. I can’t see it being extremely damaging to tourism, not a major attraction, plenty of other things to see.
State forestry organizations are noted for their destruction of native wildlife along with old growth forests. They also lose millions of dollars per year per state.
Tourists don’t come to Australia just to go to casinos. Better casinos, shopping, restaurants, and entertainment are elsewhere. Australia’s unique flora and fauna are major draw-cards hence all the bus tours out to the national parks
The states should not be subsidizing unsustainable activities that destroy our environment and other (private) businesses. All Australia’s timber needs could be met with private enterprise plantation forests.