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Saturday, 14 February 2009
Victorian bushfires: NSW 1994 precedent - wilderness areas, national parks were innocent factors
Topic: aust govt

In the fallout of the 1994 bushfire disaster in NSW the cynical misinformation industry with their political axe to grind and bigoted prejudice against the green movement were exposed by the real statistics of the emergency:

Here are some more instructive fallout from the huge 1994 bushfire emergency with parliamentary and coronial inquiry that followed:

The Fire Authorities did major housekeeping to get rid of people like this:

Lines of communication between farmers and other private land holders and the fire authorities was addressed and improved:

State and local government was forced to get organised and standardised with new planning legislation and expert committees across regions:

Nothing really changes, even with the hundreds dead in this latest tragedy. The blame shifting and lies are being spread like merde by sinister creeps, fools and so called objective experts, in effect industry advocates rather than honest brokers. And the biggest industry with most dirty secrets is not the tourism or conservation sector but the logging industry converting landscapes to tinder dry sclerophyll forest over decades.

Some recent rebuttal in the big press here:


Posted by editor at 9:31 AM EADT
Updated: Saturday, 14 February 2009 10:09 AM EADT

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