Kellie is a young female koala who was rescued by Grose Wold 1 during the Gospers Mountain Fire and hundreds of departing crews made her acquaintance at the Kurrajong Heights Bowling Club.
She was entrusted to Wires and Martin Philpott has looked after her for the last six months. She has now been returned to the bush. SBS take up the story.
An excellent list of new priorities for the coming year – many thanks Rob Rogers!
The Greater Hume Shire wants the RFS brass to take more notice of local knowledge. Stomp Wines are giving 10% of the sales of their Rose to Broke Rural Fire Brigade. These are two of the stories in this weeks news roundup.
Sabra Lane on AM yesterday introduced a segment on RFS Volunteers and the after effects of the fires.
We wait until next week for the outcome of the Celeste Barber case in the NSW Supreme Court to determine what will happen with the $51 million raised for the RFS.
We also sadly report on the death from Covid19 of the french Mayor of Villiers-Bretonneaux who raised so much money for our bushfire victims.
Plus all the other news from around the state and more.
Better bushfire evacuation planning is one of the lead stories on this weeks news roundup.
When people get trapped on roads while trying to evacuate there is real potential for catastrophe.
Roger Underwood opined in Quadrant Online that the outcomes from the NSW Bushfire Enquiry could be expected to be delivered on true “Yes Minister” lines.
We shouldn’t expect the NSW Enquiry to seriously criticise the performance of its own government. The Royal Commission may produice a better result.
Deborah Cornwall reported in the Australian on May 6th that the fate of the $53 million raised by Celeste Berber at the bushfire relief concert at the ANZ Stadium was headed to the Supreme Court.
The Winter 2020 Edition of the Volunteer Fire Fighter is about to hit the presses and we need all your stories and photographs a.s.a.p. please and definitely before the deadline of Friday 2nd June.
A news roundup from across the country for the last week. The failure to distribute half of the bushfire appeal funds is the headline story.