Bushfire damage could be reduced dramatically if people don't build among the trees & let the Bush burn freely every year.

NAME and SHAME. A South Coast NSW servo in the bushfire area has been caught selling 24 packs of water for $48. Seen photo on 'Facebook', put the price up 300% to cash in. DISGUSTING! They didn't give the name.

DISGUSTING!
Paul1405,
Yes, disgusting in the extreme. See if you can dig up the name & ethnicity of the operator !
These people need to be dealt with by the ATO & ACCC.

Just read a headline about residents of Cobargo giving the PM a hard time during his visit there & blamed him for not doing anything for them.
Ok, I googled Cobargo & I can see houses literally under trees. Shouldn't these people complain to their Council instead of the PM ?
I know how terrible it feels when you lose property but why on Earth keep trees so close to your home ? Go to those Environmentalists who dreamed up the regulations that you can't remove a tree from your property & ask them for compensation instead of getting stuck into the PM ?
Or, if people didn't remove trees they could have removed, ask them why they didn't ?
Will they think about the next floods & the next heat waves & act accordingly ? Me thinks not, easier to blame the bloke they expect to make sound decisions whilst having to rely on the advise of academic 'experts'.
I bet they wouldn't be against a crew from a National Service now helping them out !

The reports of people abusing the Prime Minister for their own shortcomings is typical of the psyche of Bush dwellers.
Why abuse the PM, he didn't plant the trees right up against your homes, you did ! Did you cut trees away from your homes before the fire season ?
As horrible as it is to lose everything does not warrant the behaviour. Why not abuse the leader of the opposition, weren't they in power when you built your homes among the gumtrees ?

Individual,

On the other hand, a high proportion of those who have built their homes surrounded by trees, with one road in, etc., have probably been Greens, so it's not all bad news.

If I were an insurance company, I would be sending in fire assessors BEFORE approving any policy; and build the proximity of vegetation, use of window-shields, roof-sprinklers, access, etc. into the cost of those policies.

As it is, we all are going to have to pay more for home insurance to pay for this latest catastrophe.

Joe