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Want proper bushfire prevention policy? Draft the Greens into the RFS

9 December 2019

3:33 PM

9 December 2019

3:33 PM

No one should be surprised that our bush is ablaze and our cities are smothered in smoke.

For decades now we have been locking up land, banning burnoffs and encouraging eucalypt fire-trees.

On a hot day, the blue haze on distant timbered hills is highly-flammable eucalypt oil vapour, waiting for a spark.

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