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Opinion: Gavin Butcher – Fact-checking the six excuses of Dave Kelly

Dave Kelly, WA’s Minister for Forestry, has come up with a grab-bag of reasons to explain his decision to abandon an industry he is meant to champion. Each of his reasons come straight from the green activists’ playbook, rather than from scientists and the industry. CLAIM 1. Native fo
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Friday analysis: the clash of cultures in current fire management

Extreme fire weather days have increased in Australia by 56% over the last four decades, according to new research from an international team of scientists, including CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. The results, published today, shows that the fire season length across Aus
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