01-07-2020, 11:10 PM
Perhaps this thread's title could be changed to 'Deer in the Firelight'...?
I think so much of this is about Government policy, both Federal and State - they spend less and less on vital services so they can provide more tax cuts, with the net effect that it allows us to watch the outcome of the bushfires on the 65" TV in the spare room.
I am well aware of the Federal-State impasse that occurs when it comes to funding public services (I work in Health), which just gives them both an excuse to blame each other. But in the end, the politicians are too busy buying votes and building monuments to use OUR money wisely.
The old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure - if we have effective and well-provisioned emergency workforces including volunteers, providing proactive as well as reactive services, we are less likely to end up wondering how so many of these events go so wrong.
I think so much of this is about Government policy, both Federal and State - they spend less and less on vital services so they can provide more tax cuts, with the net effect that it allows us to watch the outcome of the bushfires on the 65" TV in the spare room.
I am well aware of the Federal-State impasse that occurs when it comes to funding public services (I work in Health), which just gives them both an excuse to blame each other. But in the end, the politicians are too busy buying votes and building monuments to use OUR money wisely.
The old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure - if we have effective and well-provisioned emergency workforces including volunteers, providing proactive as well as reactive services, we are less likely to end up wondering how so many of these events go so wrong.
This is now the longest premiership drought in the history of the Carlton Football Club - more evidence of climate change?