Letters to the editor
RICHARD ABBOTT: I suggest that Nobel laureate Al Gore is overstretching his climate change bow a tad, as the largest recent NSW bushfire was reportedly started by a defence exercise using live munitions (Al Gore enters NSW bushfire climate debate, InDaily, 24 October 2013).
All bushfires are ferocious monsters, so naturally increased living and dead vegetation over time immemorial, in inaccessible areas enables these bushfires to create their own horrendous climate from a plentiful fuel load, which has nothing to do with too little or too much recent rainfall or heat.
Given, that as I post this comment 1,000 kilometres away from the NSW bushfires fires, while wearing a sweater on a sunless day, one wonders if Mr Gore realises that Australia has an area of 7.6 million square kilometres and that one particular bush fire has burned only 500 square kilometres in densely vegetated, inaccessible, rugged terrain?
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The conclusion that this humble Australian presumes is that both climate change and the influential messenger are terribly selective, a characteristic that is foreign to time.
NEVILLE BROWN: The solution to the Workcover debacle in not a simple one but it is a possible one, and comments like we have received from the Minister and simplistic historical revisionist approaches are unhelpful. The fix for Workcover lies not in legislative change, but in cultural and management change. This will not be achieved by reshuffling existing existing staff who some would argue seem to be all infected with the same virus. What we need is vision and action to change the management system and cultural perspective. Tearing down what is essentially a sound structure and building Workcover Mark 2, using the same people, with the same approach, the same attitude, and the same culture, will end up with the same problems and issues.
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