A couple of things, Miriam.

If you are referring to the Margaret River fire, that was human error in the first place. Very poor decisions were made and acknowledged at the time.That a Royal Commission was called to address factors surrounding the Victorian fires is a declaration of incompetence. Didn’t the Police Commissioner go missing??

The outcome of the Victorian Royal Commission is more a reflection the severe embarrassment caused to all concerned before, during and after the fires. In no small way, the neglect of forestry management in order to appease naive and downright dangerous Green groups is clearly the single, most avoidable factor.

[In a guest editorial for Australian Forestry, Michael Ryan, one of the victims who lost houses in Bendigo and who works in forestry, said that Victorian authorities need to “manage fuels appropriately in diverse forest types, and residents at the rural-urban interface need to be properly prepared — and on 7 February the reality is that many were not.”[9]]

That there still exists conflicting imperatives of protecting human lives, “saving” the environment and conducting fuel reduction burns the temptation to do not much will find safe haven in LGAs with a large majority of well-meaning but dangerously ignorant green activists.

It is clear to anyone reading the Commission’s recommendations that preventative measures as detailed in the section “Land & Fuel Management” are far and away the most practical and sensible findings. All other considerations pale to the point of obscurity if a fire “crowns” or otherwise escapes control.

Your egregious leap to accuse me of showing no respect for bush fire victims IS repugnant!

As for denial of science you display total ignorance about my science background and, if resorting to that type of type casting is your way to claim some sort of high moral ground, you leave the fingerprints of a “left hater” all over what you write.