Someone clearly thinks anyone to the middle of extreme-right views is a leftie and worse than an arsonist setting fires that can and have killed people sometimes firies! Is living on another planet!

Many VOLUNTEER Firefighters would and do hold left-leaning political views.

Being a person, SMALL L LIBERAL, and former emergency response worker, who is not an indoctrinated animal of either the left or the right! I find such comment objectionable in the extreme and only able to be voiced by a nazi!

A Nazi completely bereft of normal human empathy!

From where I sit there is nothing more heinous than an arsonist! Nothing!

Particularly where their completely insane activities take the lives of firefighters and members of emergency response!

Arsonists are much more evil in every which way than paedophiles! And shouldn't receive the latitude they do today in our courts!

Even a bullet between the eyes is too good for these, evil personified animals! But should be what they receive if they cannot be permanently exiled!
Alan B.

On the topic of our government's emergency response readiness/activities? Their response to an emergency that takes more than double the annual road toll is to simply ignore it!?

Given responding to it in any meaningful way would involve removing or amending a government-created and imposed regulation!

Just that and nothing more!

And that government created and imposed regulation is, our insane prohibition on, for peaceful purpose only, nuclear energy!

Namely MSR thorium and its almost free byproduct, alpha particle and miracle cancer cure, bismuth 213!

If they are too stupid to a generic man to see than the ban, theirs, on nuclear energy! Is also an effective ban on one of its most useful byproducts, namely, miracle cancer cure bismuth 213!

Then they who could remove the offending regulation with the stroke of a pen!

Need to be held to account for a death toll, that has and still does take more lives annually than the annual road toll. More than double and from all walks of life and demographics!

Most of who could have their mandatory death sentences lifted/removed via the application of this miracle nuclear, CONVENTIONAL WESTERN, medicine.

At last report, we only had 3 grams od bismuth 213 in the entire world and only because of the most asinine and inhuman prohibition on MSR thorium and its child, bismuth 213!

And only prevented by non-action by responsible governments!

Protecting the financial interests of themselves? And or their conies in the, fossil fuel industry, big nuclear and big pharma?

There seems no other possible logical explanation!? If an annual death toll and one that's remained stubbornly undiminished over thirty years and continues! Is not a first-order priority emergency? Then pray tell, how much death toll do we need to sit still for, until it is!?
Alan B.

Valley Guy, you nailed it ! Most of the government (local, state. Federal) relies on the good nature of people such as your partner to carry their various "cans", because they won't allocate enough funds to organisations such as RFS. Far easier to spend $300 million on overseas aid to Indonesia each year than to get fresh rations for firefighters mate...sorry ! Saddened to hear she was abused. My Uncle lost everything in the recent fires in Rappville, lucky to get through it all with the clothes on his back. Maybe the topic/thread here should have read: "The Elephant in the room"...? Terrorism per se, terrorists et al and the subject of the post is another one of our governments devices to subjugate (by fear) the masses. The Romans called it "divide et impera" or as we say today: "Divide and conquer". Whip up some hysteria over a relatively unlikely happening...let's say being bitten by a funnel web spider and the media goes nuts. Same same terrorism. Examine the Lindt cafe siege a few years ago. Was it really the act of a terrorist or just a religious nut, something like a David Koresh & the Waco, Texas event in the USA. Koresh could, today, be interpreted as a "terrorist" under current legislation - US or Australian. What is a terrorist ? I sat many years ago, just a young soldier 22 yrs old, in a room full of experts at the time. This was mind you only 18 months after the Iranian Embassy Siege in London. Then, as now their collective definition of a terrorist was this: "It is a person or persons acting on what their beliefs, experiences and hatreds direct them towards." A terrorist could be the kid next door who Googles how to make an improvised explosive from the Anarchists Cookbook, takes it to school tomorrow because he/she was bullied and detonates it killing fellow students. Who then is the terrorist amongst us?

The handful of aged pensioners left in her brigade will have to service the wider community.

Valley Guy,
People like Paul1405 think Pensioners are of no use to society.