Victoria’s logging regulator is failing to fully use its powers, and cannot assure the public it is reducing the risk of illegal logging, a Victorian Auditor General’s Office report finds.
— Read on www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-07/logging-regulator-vicforrests-auditor-general-report/101508096

The book Wounded Country reports Murray Darling Basin, 200 years ago, held 18 to 24 Billion trees, tall big canopy types, now down to 8B and still land clearing. Replants take 100years to resume normal service. Why do democratic governments even pretend they’re rational and reasonable?