Today Devonport, Railton, and everywhere in between them and Kimberley were shrouded in a thick, stinking, ash-laiden smog.

Thanks Forestry Tasmania. Thanks Gunns Ltd. Thanks Lennon/Bartlett Tasmanian Labor Party.

Just in time for this weekend’s State Election.

Launceston, after one of the most glorious summers on record, is shrouded in a blanket of smoke.  The sun is barely visible.  The gloom is overwhelming.

A couple of tourists stopped me in the street and asked where the fire was.  I didn’t know where to start.  Launceston does, after all, promote itself as a tourism destination.

Where’s the outcry?  Why no comment in the local paper?  Who will act as a voice for both the health of the locals and the survival of the tourism industry?

Comes from Victoria - hazard reduction burns if they’re being sensible following Black Saturday.

crf, nowhere near the point of the toon :) but I’m not surprised you don’t get it