help for fire victims...rally, page-132

Objectively, I also have sympathies with Voltaire. To think that we lost 60,000 in WW1 and another 40,000 in WW2. I also was a bit gobsmacked at how the USA became very angry at the loss of life 911 after the the US lost 260,000 plus in WW2. The UK lost close to 1,000,000 in WW1. The tsunami was right up there in many lives lost in Asia.

The media is very happy to sell space and time during these events and yes, cycnically, the politicans turn up and use the air time to their own benefit. From what I have heard, many were saved due to the ABC regional radio transmission updates.

However, the enormity of losing innocent civilians very quickly brings out the best of all, no matter what the cirumstance, but in historical context, the numbers are small.

We still accept that Aboriginal males die on average at approx.57 and the social ussies now regarding poverty are at enormous levels.

That being said, it was a tragedy in Victoria and historical too, but yes, IMO, the human condition can be questioned, particularly when many generations have never experienced the inhumanity of war, and how perhaps some individuals are never helped, no matter what injustices they have had to endure.

Been a true Australian Summer full of shark attacks, bushfires, floods, soaring temperatures and now croc attacks but IMO, there are many daily injustices that are never reported.