VFFA Vice President, Brian Williams talks to Jane Marwick (2GB) about management of bush fire fuel and the difficulties people face when applying for permission to conduct hazard reduction activities.
Those who are opposed to burning often claim that the ‘window of opportunity is too narrow’, but that claim is absolute nonsense. Dry fuels create a situation where burning becomes possible on very cold days in the middle of winter.
The Bush Fire Environmental Assessment Code has been added to this web site. Click on the image below:
We have been hearing about these new laws since the Media Release by Michael Gallacher on 13 November 2013. Mr Gallacher said: “We are also developing new rules which when commenced will allow homeowners in designated bush fire prone areas to…
The Sugar Bag Project Mike Lewis from Charles Darwin University talks with elder Tommy George about stingless bees and hives. Learn how traditional knowledge and cool burning can positively affect the abundance of flora and the bees. Please Note: This…
VFFA Volunteers or Brigades are invited to send in their stories, articles or photos to our Media Officer in readiness for our Summer 2014 edition (Winter 2014 edition shown below). Contact details are published on our "Contact Us" page.
The NSW RFS is conducting a number of Code of Conduct and Ethics training workshops in 2018. The VFFA congratulates the NSW RFS, Professional Standards Unit on this initiative. We encourage members to attend these workshops. The workshops are interactive…
These guidelines may well have been appropriate for 2006. The changing climate conditions make it clear that any code should be a flexible and collaborative document that suits the conditions and the area. Poor management.
Thanks, Jane, for your interview with Brian Williams, another person with the commonsense to know that doing regular small burns is the only way to lessen the occurrence of the current criminal carnage.
I recently wrote a piece for ‘Quadrant Online’ ‘I Cheered When the Bushfire Came’ Miranda Devine picked up on it and it was re-tweeted 152 times. This resulted in requests for my book ‘White Overall Days’ from Tasmania and a a Canadian climate change discussion group ‘NEXUS’ ran with it as well. For 40 years I’ve been a burnoff advocate and have had enormous resistance from the RFS hierarchy when I went public to the extent that they tried to kill my credibility with newspaper editors and my local brigade. Don’t hold back. Join the VFFA and they will protect you from the empire building careerists. Google my name and ‘bushfires’ for the inside story.
These guidelines may well have been appropriate for 2006. The changing climate conditions make it clear that any code should be a flexible and collaborative document that suits the conditions and the area. Poor management.
Thanks, Jane, for your interview with Brian Williams, another person with the commonsense to know that doing regular small burns is the only way to lessen the occurrence of the current criminal carnage.
I recently wrote a piece for ‘Quadrant Online’ ‘I Cheered When the Bushfire Came’ Miranda Devine picked up on it and it was re-tweeted 152 times. This resulted in requests for my book ‘White Overall Days’ from Tasmania and a a Canadian climate change discussion group ‘NEXUS’ ran with it as well. For 40 years I’ve been a burnoff advocate and have had enormous resistance from the RFS hierarchy when I went public to the extent that they tried to kill my credibility with newspaper editors and my local brigade. Don’t hold back. Join the VFFA and they will protect you from the empire building careerists. Google my name and ‘bushfires’ for the inside story.