Strengthen the Voice of Volunteer Firefighters Across NSW The Volunteer Firefighters Association of NSW Inc (VFFA) has always stood for one fundamental principle: giving volunteer firefighters across New South Wales a strong, independent voice. The VFFA is not a registered
![The benefits of prescribed burning biodiversity [AU]](https://volunteerfirefighters.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2026-09-17_-_John_O_Donnell_-_Benefits_of_Prescribed_Burning_Biodiversity_final_page16_image-606x350.png "The benefits of prescribed burning biodiversity [AU]")
Source & image credit: John O’Donnell Prescribed burning is the controlled application of fire under specific environmental conditions. It remains essential for sustaining Australia’s fire-adapted biodiversity, ecosystem processes, and long-term landscape resilience. For thousands of years, Aboriginal cultural burning shaped these
Jason Ross Wildfire has consumed more than three times as much south-west Western Australian public native forest every year since 1995 as it did across the three preceding decades, while prescribed burning across those same forests has halved. That is
BEN ROBINSON In January 2021 my son Ben raised concerns about the management of Cooks Gap brigade in the Cudgegong district including bullying behavior and breaches to NSWRFS service standards, these concerns were ignored. After hearing no reply within
POSTPONED Ongoing global events have led to a significant increase in the cost of living, with the fuel crisis being a primary concern. Members have voiced their worries about the rising cost of fuel, which has become increasingly prohibitive. Additionally,
Saturday 28th March 2026
John O’Donnell 24 June 2025 The author considers that current fire management approaches across SE Australia landscapes are failing and, in many cases, have failed. The current state and federal fire interval approaches focus on individual species, a large number
Situated between the mega tourist towns of Echuca-Moama and Deniliquin, the club is small in size but prides itself on being a friendly family country club where you get value for money, whether dining in the Bistro, having a cool
Introduction The author considers that large numbers of Australian towns and cities are inadequately prepared for bushfires. This matter was initially assessed in a review on potential opportunities for improved town and city bushfire protection across Australia by O’Donnell (2021)
John O’Donnell 27 February 2025 An opinion piece There are clear signs, signals, outcomes and indicators that current bushfire systems, in relation to town and city protection and across forested landscapes and ecosystems, are not working effectively or achieving across