http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-26/nswfire-warnings-disaster-relief-winmalee-meeting-bushfires/5047638

""When I found out people were having entitlements stripped from them that they would have had previously, I was livid."

"Labor Senator Doug Cameron said it is the first change to federal disaster relief eligibility since 2007.

"I just can't understand why, on the day that people were being ravaged by fire, that, you know, regulations were being brought out by the Federal Minister that diminished the rights of residents in New South Wales and in the Blue Mountains," he said."

Wonderful caring LNP govt with a faux firey at the helm.

Baahh!

Belly, "OTB it is actualy a forum rule *do not divert threads*
To do so by such a lurch away from the threads path? just to score points?"

You cannot see that I was responding to Poirot's post preceding it? If my reply is a 'diversion' as you claim, why isn't Poirot's?

Not long back one of our most conservative of forum posters, Individual, was calling for the army to be called in to put the fires out, something I said was a bad idea, the conserves poo hoo'd me for saying so. Now it has come to light that its not The Greens who are responsible for the fires in the Blue Mountains but some Colonel Kink fool and his band of bods from the army.
It begs the question; Why is that the conservative posters on the forum consistently get everything wrong. Everything from saying "Abbott a good bloke." to "Climate change doesn't cause cataclysmic disasters." You would think the law of averages would kick in and the conservatives would get something right. But, no, nothing right at all. Then again the conservatives have always been consistently wrong from saying the Vietnam war was right to climate change science is bunk.
Please none of the conservatives post an answer to my question as it will surly be wrong. Let the progressive thinkers put up the right answer.

Just for the record, every Army range does not have live ammunition in the ground, in fact most of them do not.

....just the ones that set fire to the bush and destroy a couple of hundred homes.

What did these Rambo's think they were doing? Silly question, these Rambo's don't think they follow orders. I think the Army should be made pay for their stupid folly. There goes a few hundred million they normally waste anyway.

Paul,

Fire is a natural phenomenon, if it wasn't the army, it would have been something else, such as lightning. We have had a cycle of 6 years of heavy rain and humidity and the undergrowth has had a chance to grow like never before. The hot dry weather was inevitable, and while the fire was inevitable, the consequences of loss of life and property could have been avoided if home owners were allowed to clear a safety zone.

The only ones preventing this safety barrier have been the greens. The blood is on their hands.