The next day, January 18, Canberra burned. Four people perished, almost 500 homes destroyed and two-thirds of the ACT was torched. By one estimate, 95 per cent of wildlife was killed in southwest ACT.
"People could not have survived such fires in 1788. Had they faced the Black Saturdays and Ash Wednesdays white Australia has suffered, most must have died," Bill Gammage writes in The Biggest Estate on Earth.Firefighting experts and senior scientists tell Background Briefing they're concerned the Federal Government is refusing to guarantee funding for the only national research body for bushfires beyond 2021.
For those who haven't read Gammage's book, or Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu which followed it, the central thesis is that Australia was far from a virgin landscape at the time of the First Fleet's arrival but a land that had been altered and tamed by sophisticated firestick farming.
andrewprobyn Great piece. Thank you.
Don't know about that........My Climate Change metre has never been wrong.
The corruption of politics by vested interests. We need politicians to listen to the people. Not to talk, listen. Collect tweets, posts, email, messages and hear the whole.
National Parks are generally there to showcase the best effort attempt at pre-human biodiversity before the firestick-farming, land clearing and other anthropogenic factors. Which is why there are rules about what you can and can't do in national parks.
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