Coonabarabran Farmer and Bushfire fighter, Rod Young was interviewed by Prime 7 News in relation to the upcoming announcement by the NSW State Government regarding the findings of the Public Enquiry into the disastrous bushfires of January 2013. The NSW State Government is now due to released it’s report into the findings on Monday 14th September 2015.
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1. Funding – The NSW Rural Fire Service budget for the next financial year is $361 million, which is an increase of 8.6 per cent – that is a $29 million increase on the previous year’s allocation in real terms.
2. Relocation of the RFS headquarters – Are you saying that it could be in Sydney or moved to regional New South Wales?
3. 10 50 Vegetation Clearing Entitlement Scheme
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This article explores what the NSW Nature Conservation Council had to say about the Recommendations of the Wambelong fire inquiry. You can have your say using the comments option. Sensible discussion and comments will be published.
The 10/50 vegetation clearing scheme allows people to clear certain vegetation near their homes to improve protection from bush fires. The scheme was introduced following the devastating 2013 NSW bush fires, including the fires which destroyed more than 200 homes
Rod Young is the NSW Farmers representative on the bushfire management committee of the Rural Fire Service in the Castlereagh Zone. He said there are some recommendations that stand out as essential.
Aborigines came to Australia and burnt out most of the trees and bushes.
The megafauna starved whilst eucalypts, herbs, grasses and mesofauna flourished.
The ancient culture survived an ice age, global warming and hugely rising seas, forging economies in woodlands and deserts.
Europeans doused the firestick, woodlands turned to scrub, mesofauna perished, megafires and tree-eaters irrupted.
Foresters rekindled the firestick and greens stole it.
Megafires and declines are back with a vengeance whilst ecologists dream-up reasons not to burn.
Ecological history shows that we must apply the firestick frequently, willingly and skillfully to restore a healthy, safe environment and economy.
NSW Farmers resolved to support the adoption of all 29 recommendations from the NSW Upper House inquiry into the January 2013 fires at Wambelong.
NSW Farmers have published a series of media releases and we are very keen to help them distribute their message far and wide.