Victoria’s FFM smoke detectors hamstrung
Concern that the box ticking bureaucracy of Forest Fire Management Victoria (FFMV) hampered bushfire response has been questioned in State Parliament. It follows after it was revealed the Gippsland fire…
Bushfire Preparedness
Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (18:28): (626) My adjournment matter this evening is for the Minister for Environment, and it relates to fire towers in regional Victoria. It pertains to the…
Bushfire preparedness – Question without Notice
Services. During the devastating 2019–20 bushfires in East Gippsland, experienced CFA volunteers were extremely frustrated by government bureaucracy which impeded their ability to undertake backburns on Crown land and hence…
Neglected roadside vegetation a risk to regional communities
Out of control roadside vegetation must be addressed as summer and the impending bushfire season approaches. Shadow Assistant Minster for Public Land Use and The Nationals Member for Eastern Victoria…
Bushfire Preparedness for 2023 summer
Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (17:30): My statement on reports is on bushfire preparedness for the summer of 2023, and it comes from the budget papers – budget paper 3, page 41, for…
Letter to the Editor – Fire preparation time is now
Dear Editor This year we are being warned that we face an intense bushfire season and the time for preparation is now. In recent days we have seen fierce bushfires…
Bushfire Preparedness
Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:00): (265) My question is to the Minister for Environment. Under your government’s so-called Safer Together policy of a statewide average target of 70 per cent residual…
Victoria’s Bushfire response in jeopardy
It has been revealed Victoria bushfire response system is in jeopardy with regional Victoria vulnerable to wildfire because of Labor’s plans to close the native timber industry. During the 2019-20…
Bushfire Preparedness – Petition tabling
The Petition of certain citizens of the State of Victoria draws to the attention of the Legislative Council that wildfire events across Victoria over the past 20 years indicate an…
Petition backs increase in fuel reduction burning
The Howitt Society has launched a parliamentary e-petition calling on the Andrews Government to increase its annual bushfire fuel reduction targets. The petition comes after the Andrews Government turned its…
