Keywords: Royal Commission
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 02 September 2009
3 Comments
In Australia it would beggar belief to see elderly nuns directing garden hoses
against the fires that threaten their convents. But that is what happened
last week in Greece. Australia and Greece resemble each other in many ways, but not in the way they cope with fire.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 24 August 2009
11 Comments
The Black Saturday bushfires had the same relationship to previous fires as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima did to other bombing raids. Defects of communication and organisation, while regrettable and costly, were irrelevant: there's no assured safety for those
who live near bushland.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Paul Collins
- 21 August 2009
5 Comments
There were many mistakes made on Black Saturday and the Interim Report of the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission points them out. For now the commissioners avoid the 'bigger fire questions', but in the end these will have to be faced.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 18 June 2008
2 Comments
Bodies such as the NSW Crime Commission and Victoria's Office of Police Integrity have proven either ineffective or vulnerable to influence themselves. Ultimately, we the people are responsible for keeping these bodies accountable.
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