Random thoughts and observations
The Independent Member for Murchison-Eyre, John Bowler, has a gift for saying what people are thinking. That’s what makes him a successful politician. In the Kalgoorlie Miner on Monday he described the State Government’s decision to keep the highway closed between Kalgoorlie and Perth as “backside covering”. He was referring to officials in the Department [...]
I feel quite strongly now there should be a Royal Commission or a judicial inquiry into the WA bushfire deaths. A 19-year-old girl is the latest casualty, killed in a motoring accident on the alternative gravel route. Four lives have now been lost because of a poor decision and a failed system. Police are currently [...]
I don’t think I’ve ever written it here before, but my middle name is John. My full name is the same as my grandfather and uncle. My uncle was sadly killed in Victoria’s Black Friday bushfire of 1939. I searched for my name on Google tonight and a reference to the Tanjil Bren bushfire tragedy [...]
There was a good letter in the local paper today about the fuel reduction burns that are currently contaminating our atmosphere. The writer described how his house was nearly burnt in the massive bushfire of January 2003. That blaze cleaned out the undergrowth and much more, but the bush has recovered to be as thick [...]
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