If the area is in a state forest why is the NSW government not performing back burning? They don't need the blessing of the Greens to do this.
The Victorian bushfire commission came up with the following recommendations.
Land and fuel management RECOMMENDATION 56 The State fund and commit to implementing a long-term program of prescribed burning based on an annual rolling target of 5 per cent minimum of public land. RECOMMENDATION 57 The Department of Sustainability and Environment report annually on prescribed burning outcomes in a manner that meets public accountability objectives, including publishing details of targets, area burnt, funds expended on the program, and impacts on biodiversity. RECOMMENDATION 58 The Department of Sustainability and Environment significantly upgrade its program of long-term data collection to monitor and model the effects of its prescribed burning programs and of bushfires on biodiversity in Victoria. RECOMMENDATION 59 The Department of Sustainability and Environment amend the Code of Practice for Fire Management on Public Land in order to achieve the following: - provide a clear statement of objectives, expressed as measurable outcomes - include an explicit risk-analysis model for more objective and transparent resolution of competing objectives, where human life is the highest priority - specify the characteristics of fire management zones—including burn size, percentage area burnt within the prescribed burn, and residual fuel loading - adopt the use of the term ‘bushfire’ rather than ‘wildfire’. RECOMMENDATION 60 The State amend the exemptions in clause 52.17-6 of the Victoria Planning Provisions to ensure that the provisions allow for a broad range of roadside works capable of reducing fire risk and provide specifically for a new exemption where the purpose of the works is to reduce bushfire risk. RECOMMENDATION 61 The State and Commonwealth provide for municipal councils adequate guidance on resolving the competing tensions arising from the legislation affecting roadside clearing and, where necessary, amend environment protection legislation to facilitate annual bushfire-prevention activities by the appropriate agencies. RECOMMENDATION 62 VicRoads implement a systematic statewide program of bushfire risk assessment for all roads for which it is responsible, to ensure conformity with the obligations in s. 43 of the Country Fire Authority Act 1958 and with the objectives expressed in the VicRoads 1985 Code of Practice
