Comments on: Blazes continue while policy comes under heat: a Crikey media wrap http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/blazes-continue-while-policy-comes-under-heat-a-crikey-media-wrap/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/blazes-continue-while-policy-comes-under-heat-a-crikey-media-wrap/#comment-4587 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-4587 Great picture of the clothesline. Surreal. No wonder the soundtrack on 7.30 tonight was Thin Red Line.<br /><br />And some genuine analysis here:<br /><br />http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog/1879898/of-bushfire-horror-weather-and-woodchips/<br /><br />and here<br /><br />http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog/1880289/bushfire-reportage-unconfirmed-300-plus-dead-questions-of-systemic-govt-land-use-failure/<br /><br />That prediction of 300 deaths at 7am this morning has been confirmed 12 hours later on tonight's abc tv news via the Victorian Coroner.<br /><br />Declaration: I was called briefly to give evidence at the Parliamentary Inquiry and Coronial Inquiry after the NSW bushfires in 1994 representing The Wilderness Society as NSW Campaign Co-ordinator.<br /><br />And it might be instructive to note, that 14 months later Bob Carr was elected on a very prominent forest conservation platform, even after some deaths at Como and Jannali in Sydney on the bush city interface. Just another reason why the skinny bastard owes me (!). Great picture of the clothesline. Surreal. No wonder the soundtrack on 7.30 tonight was Thin Red Line.

And some genuine analysis here:

http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog/1879898/of-bushfire-horror-weather-and-woodchips/

and here

http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog/1880289/bushfire-reportage-unconfirmed-300-plus-dead-questions-of-systemic-govt-land-use-failure/

That prediction of 300 deaths at 7am this morning has been confirmed 12 hours later on tonight’s abc tv news via the Victorian Coroner.

Declaration: I was called briefly to give evidence at the Parliamentary Inquiry and Coronial Inquiry after the NSW bushfires in 1994 representing The Wilderness Society as NSW Campaign Co-ordinator.

And it might be instructive to note, that 14 months later Bob Carr was elected on a very prominent forest conservation platform, even after some deaths at Como and Jannali in Sydney on the bush city interface. Just another reason why the skinny bastard owes me (!).

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