Superdylan still got the pool?
i do get a giggle that when a bloke like Kerry Stokes comments on climate change the response is always "IM SORRY DOES HE HAVE A SCIENCE DEGREE OR IS HE JUST A MEDIA MOGUL??????"
Then when Bob Brown (a medical doctor) says something about the environment its like "DRAG EM BOB YOU DA MAN **** ALL DEM HATERZ".
10metres and 50 metres
Yeah that great
You realise how fast fire moves and how it pays attention to these bureaucrats dumb ideas??
Here is one for you
How come rice farming peasents in SE Asia can burn the countryside to the ground in the peak of 45C summer days there and not have no fire brigade on standby and they don't burn their houses down
Says something about us Skips that we fail so bad
you're asking why a rice paddy doesn't burn out of control when the Australian bush, which has been managed with fire for so long it has numerous adaptations to regular burns, does?
Not to mention the LNP has been busy cutting millions from the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Interesting reading after Barnaby, Barilaro and McCormack both decided this week that it's all the greenies fault.
And now coming out that the govt are deliberately misleading when it comes to the numbers they're quoting.The Public Service Association has also attacked the NSW government for what it said was a “35% cut to fire-trained positions” in national parks.Its acting general secretary, Troy Wright, said on Tuesday: “It is the Nationals who hold the purse string. Rather than funding the NPWS properly so that they can undertake strategic reductions they have crippled them with massive budget cuts and devastating restructures.”
The NSW environment minister, Matt Kean, told Guardian Australia that NPWS had 1,665 full time equivalent staff, a rise of 144 since 2017. Since 2011, Kean said the NSW government had increased the number of NPWS firefighters from 1,050 to 1,226.
Some 400 NPWS staff were out fighting fires. He says: “They are risking their lives to keep the community safe. Many are fighting fires that are not on park, but to protect people and property.”
He says NPWS undertakes 75% of all hazard reduction in the state, adding that last season, NPWS undertook 137,500 hectares of prescribed burns, which was above its target of 135,000 hectares.https://psa.asn.au/factcheck-is-ther...dian-12-11-19/
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/c...14-p53aou.html
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...5caaf44ef73ac1
But hey, lets blame the Greens, who don't hold govt or set policy and legislation.
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more money doesnt equate to better outcomes.
it never has it never will.
its a collective failure of policy, administration, environmental factors, and the bastards and idiots that light the damn things.
politicians of all persuasions have a hand in this. i dont trust any of them to do the right thing about any of it though.
Commies blaming politicians for the weather, classy.
And how do you further legislate for unforeseen circumstances? Innercity lunatics are also in the suburbs
so considering hes not old enough to vote who do we associate him with?Police allege 16-year-old lit Queensland blaze that razed 14 homes, after body found in bushland near Kempsey on the NSW mid-north coast
Prob Trump right? this is def Trumps fault.
oh good, surely justice will prevail......Police say the 16-year-old boy has not been charged with arson, but will be dealt with under the state’s Youth Justice Act.
Hope you arent directing this at me.
Politicians arent to blame for the weather, but they are directly to blame for cutting millions from the budget of the department in charge of bushfire hazard reduction and the front line staff (ie rangers with fire experience) who carry it out.
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So how much money did this decision cost?
lets hope the fire in QLD jumps over the border so those potential pedo fireys from NSW can put it out.A 'ludicrous' new rule requiring volunteer firefighters to receive a work-with-children check could see thousands of them banned from battling blazes.
Queensland volunteers will be required to lodge a Blue Card application before December 1. or they will not be able to continue helping battle fires.
This new rule could see 15,000 volunteers banned from fighting fires from January 1 if they failed to apply for work-with-children checks.
Deadly fires have been burning throughout Queensland and New South Wales for more than a week resulting in four deaths.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Deputy Commissioner, John Bolger, recently broke the news to volunteers.
'Any QFES volunteer who is required to have a Blue Card, but refuses to apply for one, or is unable to hold a current Blue Card, will not be able to continue their role,' Mr Bolger said.
'As a member of the Rural Fire Service, you are likely to come into contact with children while performing your role, so are required to have a Blue Card. It is the law.'
Volunteers from NSW or Victoria do not need similar credentials.
I'm confused with your point here plague. Getting a WWCC takes all of 5 mins so anyone who falls foul of that policy is either too dumb to submit a simple form or has probably done something that they need to hide.
Are you saying that the government wanting this simple check done is a bad thing? Or have I missed some other point?
yes you've missed something.
id love all people in that sphere to have the necessary checks. But Mr Furns singled out govt financial cutbacks in one section of the problem as the issue.
all im saying is that you dont need to bring it back to money to find the real root of the problem. its the politicians, and their interest groups, of all persuasions, on all sides that just make life about 400,000* times harder than it should be.
*random estimated number, but you get the drift.
You've pointed it out though Plague, I said "one part of the problem"
I didnt discount your point as another part of the overall issue. I did say that the money cuts and the restructure were a major part of the problem, but not that there weren't other contributing factors as well.
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whoa whoa whoa.
sorry everyone, but we have found the real cause of the bushfires. I take back everything ive said, and suggest you all do too.
Thanks again to Izzy Folau for pointing out the obvious..........
'They've legalised same-sex marriage... Going against the laws that God says,' he said in footage posted to The Truth of Jesus Christ Church's Facebook page.
'Abortion – it's OK now to murder and kill infants, unborn children - and they deem that to be OK.
'Look how rapid these bushfires, these droughts, all these things they've come in a short period of time – you think it's a coincidence?'
Folau told worshippers 'God was speaking' to Australia and said: 'You need to repent.'
i sooooooohope this is taken in context, but even if its not, **** him and his bullshit.