Four peer-reviewed, published scientific studies from four institutions in six years have made this finding, as have multiple scientific reviews.

After logging, increased sunlight dries out the forest floor, the wind speed on hot days increases because of the lack of a tree canopy and fans any bushfires, and potentially thousands of fast-growing saplings per hectare increases the fuel for a fire to burn.

Only one major piece of work, funded by the logging industry and co-authored by logging industry employees, argued differently.

It was immediately discredited in a peer-reviewed paper by two of Australia's most respected fire scientists, Bradstock and Price, who said the logging industry piece had misrepresented their data.

Climate change is making Australia more vulnerable to bushfire, and the evidence is that logging forests makes things worse.

Australia got through the first wave and Victoria even managed to wind things down, but you would think after the 'Ruby Princess' fiasco we would learn.

To hear people are still returning to Australia from known hotspots and not put in quarantine, but told to self-isolate is a joke.

And to hear that it's not mandatory to do a COVID-19 test after isolation is an even bigger joke. You have already seen through the protests that some people in the community don't care.

This is a global pandemic, people are dying by the thousands and yet they don't have to do a test. The government says it's proactive with testing, well let's start at the source.

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Covid-19 is a windfall for banks.

We are advised by the "Powers That Be" to use our plastic cards when making purchases instead of using cash for health reasons.

During the month of June I used my direct debit card to make all my purchases. On receiving my statement I found that I am being charged 70 cents for each EFTPOS withdrawal and 40 cents each for bill payments and bank transfers.

The cost of using my money for debit card transaction was $34.30 to which my bank allowed me a rebate of $11.75. As a retired person the net cost to me was $22.55 is significant for using my money which the bank gives me little or no interest on the reasonable balances held in the account.

My advice to card users is to use your credit card and pay the balance in full at the appropriate time and avoid the EFTPOS fees.

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