Re, I noticed a lot of Green Federal representatives are saying...

Re, I noticed a lot of Green Federal representatives are saying a Royal Commission into the Bushfires is a waste of money and time...

... Have the Royal commission and let's find out the truth!


Good Luck with that !!

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Previous bushfire inquiries

2.1 The substantial number of previous inquiries into bushfires in Australia was noted on many occasions in evidence to this committee inquiry. This chapter briefly considers the findings of major recent bushfire inquiries and explores the frustrations many in the community feel about apparent political inaction in response.

2.2Since 1939, there have been at least 18 major bushfire inquiries in Australia, including state and federal parliamentary committee inquiries, COAG reports, coronial inquiries and Royal Commissions. They are listed as follows:

• 1939 (Victoria): Report of the Royal Commission to inquire into the causes of and measures taken to prevent the bush fires of January, 1939. L.E.B. Stretton.
• 1961 (Western Australia): Report of the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into and report upon the bush fires of December 1960 and January, February and March 1961, Western Australia. G.J. Rodger.
• 1967 (Tasmania): The bush fire disaster of 7th February, 1967: report and summary of evidence. D.M. Chambers and C.G. Brettingham-Moore.
• 1977 (Victoria): Report of the Board of Inquiry into the occurrence of bush and grass fires in Victoria. E. Barber.
• 1984 (Victoria): Report of the Bushfire Review Committee on bushfire preparedness in Victoria, Australia, following the Ash Wednesday fires 16 February 1983. S.I. Miller et. al.
• 1984 (national): 'Bushfires and the Australian environment', Report by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. P. Milton, Chair.
• 1994 (NSW): Report of the Select Committee on Bushfires, Parliament of New South Wales, Legislative Assembly.
• 1996 (NSW): Recommendations from the New South Wales Inquiry into 1993/94 Fires, NSW State Coroner’s Office. J.W. Hiatt.
• 2001 (NSW): Recommendations from the Inquiry into the Fire at Mt Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, NSW State Coroner’s Office. J. Stevenson.
• 2002 (Victoria): Report of the Investigation and Inquests into a Wildfire and the Deaths of Five Firefighters at Linton on 2 December 1998. State Coroner’s Office, Victoria. G. Johnstone.
• 2002 (NSW): Report on the Inquiry into the 2001/2002 Bushfires, Joint Select Committee on Bushfires, Parliament of New South Wales, Legislative Assembly. J. Price, Chair.
• 2003 (ACT): Inquiry into the Operational Response to the January 2003 Bushfires in the ACT. R.N. McLeod.
• 2003 (Victoria): Report of the Inquiry into the 2002–2003 Victorian Bushfires. B. Esplin et al.
• 2003 (national): 'A Nation Charred: Inquiry into the Recent Australian Bushfires', House of Representatives Select Committee on the Recent Australian Bushfires. G. Nairn, Chair.
• 2004 (national): Council of Australian Governments National Inquiry into Bushfire Mitigation and Management. S. Ellis et al.
• 2006 (ACT): Inquests and Inquiry into Four Deaths and Four Fires between 8 and 18 January 2003. M. Doogan, ACT Coroner.
• 2008 (Victoria) 'Report on the Impact of Public Land Management Practices on Bushfires in Victoria', Victorian Parliamentary Environment and Natural Resources Committee. J. Pandazopoulos, Chair.
• 2009 (Victoria): 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission Interim Report. B. Teague et al.
• 2009 (Victoria): 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission Interim Report 2: Priorities for building in bushfire prone areas. B. Teague et al.
• 2010 (Victoria): Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission Final Report. B. Teague et al.

2.3 In Appendix 5 the committee reproduces the recommendations of these reports, from the 2003 House of Representatives report onwards. The committee has included government responses where available, as well as a brief comment on the extent to which recommendations from those inquiries have been implemented.

2.4 Nearly all of these inquiries have been established in response to major bushfire events in the south-eastern parts of Australia. As the Bushfire CRC notes in its submission, these areas are more greatly affected by such events:

All of it:

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Former_Committees/agric/completed_inquiries/2008-10/bushfires/report/c02