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…
The Nationals challenge Labor’s bureaucratic bushfire backburning approval process
Backburning on crown land during bushfires is set remain a torturous bureaucratic process after Labor’s Minister for Emergency Services, Jacyln Symes refused to acknowledge a significant issue with the approvals…
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…
Labor fails to act on fuel loads putting Gippsland at risk of bushfire
The Andrews Government is failing to protect central and west Gippslanders from the threat of summer bushfires by allowing the Latrobe District forest fuel loads to reach alarming levels. Fire…
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…
