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When the Bushfires Royal Commission releases its report, the focus of the media will be on who gets the blame, and journalists will be intent on providing the most sensational headlines to sell the most newspapers or TV and radio advertising. Christine Nixon has already been branded as a villain as has CFA Chief Russell [...]

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The draft for this article was written on 5th March, but was not published because it was felt that the task of deciding who received money and how much would be very difficult and no matter what decisions were made, would be the subject of criticism, and we didn’t want to add to that. In [...]

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Whilst the objective of roadside vegetation is laudable, the native vegetation legislation is badly flawed in design and atrocious in implementation. Native roadside vegetation looks good. It gives the impression that the whole surrounding land is vegetated and running with little animals when in fact it encircles the open farmlands. It does provide an environment [...]

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There have been a number of letters to the editors of papers over the last month,  where the blame for the recent devastating fires has been  put down to climate change, the drought or the weather conditions which prevailed on 7 February 2009.  The fact is that climate change and  drought do not cause fires [...]

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