What we have uncovered and what government do not want you to know about bushfires

- Mal Davies interviews scientist and farmer, Noeline Franklin who is issuing a warning to the NSW and ACT governments to wake up and look around the Snowy Mountains. The destruction of a Canberra susburb, with the loss of human life, not to mention devestation that 2003 inferno did to our heritage Snowy […]

Scientist and farmer Noeline Franklin met with the Rural Fire Service Deputy Fire Commissioner Dominic Lane, Southern Region Manager Jeff Lucas and Lindsay Lashbrook, Riverina at Brindabella to explain the folly of the events leading up to the 2003 firestorm to the west of Canberra. Hazard reduction to maintain the ideal vegetation structure she explained […]

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The Volunteer Fire Fighters Association, New South Wales only association solely representing the volunteers fire fighters in the Rural Fire Service of New South Wales holds in disgust the reported comments of John Maconachie, QC, reported in the Daily […]

Firestorms, unlike Bushfires, are so hot
the ashes smoulder for years andall it takes to re-ignite the flames is one callous blow from a Bureaucrat serving lawyer
The modern Phoenix Arises from the Ashes in the form of One Man; his resolve to seek justice by the processes available to us all, and his dogged belief that […]

The last attack on findings and report ACT Coroner Maria Doogan furnished on the 2003 Bushfire “The Canberra Firestorm” inferno that destroyed much of the Snowy Mountains, has been vidicated with one clause only remoevd. Suburbs of Canberra with loss of human life, was nothing short of a holocaust perpetuated by massive fuel loads on […]

Bushfire research results ‘Academic Waffle’
The CSIRO should take over the leadership of Australia’s bushfire research effort, creating a national research flagship to fast-track results, scientists say.
State and Federal government agency sources have told The Canberra Times they believe the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre currently Australia’s biggest bushfire research effort with a budget of $110million lacks […]

At no small inconvenience, living 200 kms east of Melbourne, I attended this lecture last week by the Stretton Group consisting of Australia’s best bushfire experts who present the facts and are untouched by government spin doctors or many coats of cover-up white wash.
It was worth it. Roger Underwood was the recipient of the NM […]

It is the sixth anniversary of the Canberra 2003 FIRESTORM !

The loss of life, the loss of our heritage Snowy, the loss of respect for those chosen by government to manage our public land, the coroner appointed to adjudicate this fiasco of bureaucratic bungling being placed under duress by the Mayor of Canberra Jon […]

Mal Davies Reports from Bindabella Valley

Attending the opening of NSW Rural Fire Service Brindabella Valley Fire Station “new kitchen” on Saturday 24th January 2009, was an experience.
This fire station is the only public building in the valley which also functions as a community centre where local families and kids with RFS Bushfire Fighting Volunteers […]

Flames Consume ACT Labor

Bushfire fear permeates the ACT once again and all due to political intransigence along with having the arrogance to ignore Coroner Doogan’s main recommendation.
ACT Labor politicians are being held accountable for inadequacies and failures to heed the advice of renown Coroner, Maria Doogan and other experts, now have the temerity to attack […]

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