Yet Premier John Brumby builds a pipeline to Melbourne with plans to take water from the drought-ridden and fire-ravaged Eildon catchment.

We have just had the worst fires in Australia’s history.

Yet in response to the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council’s riverine redgum study, the Government now agrees to “a target of retaining an average of at least 50 tonnes per hectare of coarse woody debris in riverine parks and state forests”.

Lightning strikes and arsonists will love that policy.

We are in a global downturn, which is getting worse every day, so how does Mr Brumby support regional economies?

He destroys a viable, sustainable redgum timber industry, putting hard-working people out of work and decimating local communities - all for a few Green preferences.

Who needs enemies, when you have leaders like him?

FAYE ASHWIN,

Timber Communities Australia,

Koondrook/Barham