Letters

  • Burns should follow WA model

    IN response to Lindsay Leake, the intensity of bushfires is measured by Byram’s fire intensity equation. He can look up scientist David Packham’s talk on…

  • New revelations mean McKenzie must go

    New revelations mean McKenzie must go

    BRIDGET McKenzie must resign as a minister following more explosive revelations about the government’s sports rorts scandal. Sky News reported that in late 2018 a…

  • Dust preferable to catastrophic fires

    I AM a Red Cliffs-born girl who has lived the past 48 years on the NSW coast and Southern Highlands. I have lived through storms…

  • Cool burning, grazing overrated

    Cool burning, grazing overrated

    Regarding Neville Gardner and Alan McKinnon on fuel reductionand cool burning (SD, January 27),  I won’t try to argue on technical matters, but I will…

  • Age no barrier to understanding facts

    Age no barrier to understanding facts

    REGARDING “Puzzled” (Txt the Editor, Sunraysia Daily, January 24): You sneer at Greta Thunberg ­because she is only 17 years old and claim she ignores…

  • Queue for aged care growing day by day

    WAITING times for aged care have grown by almost 300 per cent ­under the Liberals, with older Australians across the country forced into lengthy queues…

  • Sydney news images unrepresentative

    Sydney news images unrepresentative

    THE national news needs to feature more of Australia in its backdrops when reading news and reports. Too often a news backdrop is a Sydney…

  • Cool burning keeps build-up to safe level

    I ASSUME Robert Hillier (Inbox, January 22) is a country person so he can’t be as ignorant as he sounds and is ignoring known facts.…

  • Fuel reduction the key to managing bush

    Somebody should tell all the donkeys that Scott Morrison didn’t start the fires and Aussies couldn’t change anything, even if we had reduced our CO2…

  • Sydney not only gateway to Australia

    THE tourism issues from the bushfires show how Australian tourism has been east coast and Sydney-­focused for too long. The Sydney dominance as the gateway…

  • Resistance to climate change will fall

    THE city-country divide seems paradoxical when it comes to support for climate action.  Not until food becomes extremely expensive or unavailable will climate change actually…

  • Vic paramedics setting new standards

    Vic paramedics setting new standards

    PARAMEDICS are arriving at cardiac arrests faster than ever before, with a record number of Victorian patients surviving, thanks to our world-class paramedics and unprecedented…

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