Awed by convoy

Green corridors

WILDFIRES are burning every year in Australia and this seems to increase. I feel it is impossible to contain fires unless we create corridors through the forests, corridors say, 1km wide, with roads on the right and left and water available. We do not need to burn the trees, cut them and sell the wood. A road on both sides will make it possible for the fire brigade to pass. Create a green corridor and resettle people there and give a small space on a 99-year lease. Create vegetable gardens where people without employment and housing could have a place to work and stay. In Tasmania we have hundreds of international students who struggle to find a job. We have people who unfortunately come from families who have been unemployed for generations. An employer will not give work to people who haven’t been working before and when it is unknown if they are reliable. It is up to governments to help these people find work. IT was truly awe-inspiring to witness the departure of a convoy heading from our beautiful southern city on a journey all the way up our nation’s coastline, with the goal of continuing dissent to the proposed disaster that is the Adani mine. This issue has brought together people from all generations, cultural backgrounds and walks of life, no small feat given the frequently recited charge that we’re all disillusioned these days. Seems to me we’re more passionate than ever, but our hopes and dreams are being callously swept aside in worship at the altar of the dollar. in London, demanding more be done in the very tight time frame in which we have left to effect change and lastly, hero to many: Bob Brown. Theresa Sainty (Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre) put it aptly when she named him “the number one white man”.