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    Default Royal Commission or not.

    Reading a very interesting article in ABC news this morning questioning the need for ANOTHER Royal Commission into the latest fires in Australia.
    The author has given evidence in at least 7 such enquiries.
    These are some if his quotes from the article.

    Research I've recently conducted with other fire experts has concluded there have been 57 formal public inquiries, reviews and royal commissions related to bushfires and fire management since 1939, most of which are listed here.

    I have given expert evidence to at least seven of them, including the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission.

    That is more than one inquiry every two years in the past 80 years. Do we need yet another?

    Some of the recommendations of the Stretton Royal Commission following the Black Friday fires of 1939 have still not been fully implemented.

    Royal commissions are also expensive and time consuming. The 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission had a budget of $40 million and ran for about 18 months.


    This begs the question as to how money spent on a federal royal commission could be better used to deal with bushfire management across the country.
    This is a link to the article.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-...s-why/11870824

    What are your thoughts? Is it just another waste of public money ?

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    I agree a complete waste of money and just another way to show that the government of the day do not have a fecking clue as to how to handle it. Especially as fire chiefs and ex ones wanted a sit down months ago as to how best to handle but our PM Scumo thought it better to spend his time defending his ministers who are rorting of the system and getting caught. He was a con merchant in advertising (getting the sack from both the NZ and Aus one) and when watching him you can see that he is still a fully fledged con merchant. Like all con merchants, when it comes to producing the goods they are fecked. But can see him putting on a Royal Commission but with what terms of reference will it be under to cover up his stuff ups.
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    Default Re: Royal Commission or not.

    A Royal Commission will tell us very little new, but after every such event there has to be an inquest of sorts.

    As you say many of the previous recommendations have yet to be delivered going back as far as 1939.

    But maybe after this one there will have to be requirements in place regarding the building, type nad materials, and where they can be built.
    Many I know love to live in the bush and ae aware of the possibility of disaster at some time.
    Continue to do so if you wish, but now with better quality homes better suited to withstand some, but not all ,fires.\
    A clear area around such properties, one of the reasons for so much damage in this one, and the responsibility of land owners to keep their land as free as possible from excessive fuel load.
    Rules to prevent the 'Greens' from imposing fines on those who clear their land.
    Green controlled councils, and there are a number, are the problem on this.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

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