Brumby encircled by fire
But now, courtesy of the barrage of leaks, we know that Jack Rush, QC, and his team of lawyers assisting the commissioners have concluded the government has not done enough since Black Saturday to minimise the prospect of more deaths in fires.
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Brumby wants people to gloss over the policy errors and funding deficiencies over many years that led to the state being under-prepared when disaster struck.
That shouldn’t and won’t happen. The commission’s interim report, tabled in August, revealed, for example, that about 80 per cent of calls to the bushfire information line on Black Saturday went unanswered, partly because of a lack of staff. This on a day that the Premier had repeatedly warned could be the worst in our history.
