Religious tome burnt!

Yes! I know you're all horrified.

Here's the story...

(Picture from ABC)

An awakening

Perhaps there will be a change in direction as it appears the green lies which have been fed to all and believed by those who don't understand, and others who should know better, are being exposed as lies and exaggeration.

In The Weekend Australian there was an article by Paige Taylor which gives me hope. And oh, gosh, she got her lead from Quadrant!

LONG-HELD views that farmers have blithely plundered the Australian environment - raping the soil, polluting the rivers, killing off species and hastening global warming - are for the first time being challenged as a green myth.

Rather than the popular belief that Australian agriculture is destroying the environment, there is an emerging counterview that responsible modern farming helps preserve the land.

Here's the article in the Aus.

Here's a direct link ot the Quadrant article.

Australian of the Year 2008 criticizes PM!

Lee Kernaghan has criticized the PM's treatment of drought stricken farmers.

The country music singer says the Federal Government is re-branding drought as climate change and farmers are not getting the support they need to survive.

"Our Prime Minister said he was going to support working families," he said.

"Well some of the hardest working families that I know are farming families and the level of assistance they get it pitiful.

Read here.

President of farm lobby group, Agforce, disagrees with Kerhaghan.

Peter Kenny, who is also the chairman of a Government review into the social impacts of the drought, says the review should address the farmers' concerns.

"There's no doubt people are distressed and when we hear the stories of what might happen as a result of climate change we'd have to be careful that people don't become completely demoralised," he said.

"Having said that we've got to plan for the future."

Yup. Form a committee, hold a summit. Plan. Plan. Plan.

Judging from the record of the ALP in the states planning isn't the problem. It's doing.