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    Bushfire Death Trap: The Eltham Gateway
    Bushfire Death Trap: The Eltham Gateway
    Bushfire Death Trap: The Eltham Gateway
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    Bushfire Death Trap: The Eltham Gateway

    By Tim Malseed

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    Written by Tim Malseed and bushfire expert David Packham, the Paper warns of the risk of extreme bushfire to fellow residents trapped by the Yarra River. The Paper contains 12 recommendations about how the Victorian Government can mitigate that risk.

    www.theelthamgateway.com for the pdf version.

    The recommendations are heavy on Government leadership, and light on taxpayer funds.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTim Malseed
    Release dateApr 10, 2013
    ISBN9780646901398
    Bushfire Death Trap: The Eltham Gateway

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      Bushfire Death Trap - Tim Malseed

      BUSHFIRE DEATH TRAP - THE ELTHAM GATEWAY

      www.elthamsdeathtrap.com

      Bushfire Death Trap – The Eltham Gateway

      By Tim Malseed and David Packham

      Copyright 2013 Tim Malseed

      Cover by Nancy Malseed, Untitled Mono Print

      Smashwords Edition

      Tim Malseed, Eltham Gateway resident & corresponding author timalseed@gmail.com

      David Packham, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University holleyhill@bigpond.com

      Acknowledgements

      Special thanks to June Engish, Brian Murray & Mary McDonald Nillumbik Ratepayers Association, Rod Incoll former Victorian Government Chief Fire Officer, Belinda Clarkson former Victorian Government Councillor, Bill Gammage Eltham Death Trap’s theme ...trying to set fires, rather than prevent them, Associate Professor Neville Norman Difficult valuations, Felicity Dunne mental health, Peter Clarkson (volunteer fire fighter on Black Saturday), for design and layout.

      More documents referenced in this paper are available at the following web page:

      http://elthamsdeathtrap.com/links.htm

      Latest news items generated from this paper are available on the following web page:

      http://elthamsdeathtrap.com/report.htm

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Forward

      Executive Summary

      Recommendations

      The Eltham Gateway

      Black Saturday 2009

      The 2009-10 Victorian Government Inquiry

      Eltham’s History of Extreme Bushfire Risk:

      Eltham Gateway’s Extreme Bushfire Threat:

      Precedents

      Death and Trauma Risk

      Extreme Bushfire Emergency Warnings

      Extreme Bushfire Cost:

      Recommendations

      Conclusion

      Appendix: Rationale for paper

      Foreword

      Two weeks after Black Saturday, the Prime Minister of Australia was asked in parliament:

      My question is to the Prime Minister, and I recognise that he answered part of this to the member for McEwen earlier. My question relates to the Prime Minister’s comments at yesterday’s memorial service that successive governments have failed in terms of bushfire management, and also comments made by Wurundjeri elder, Aunty Joy Murphy, from Healesville who said that Aboriginal people historically burned the land every seven years for ‘cleansing and regrowth’, but Black Saturday was a ‘torture of the land’. Prime Minister, could you elaborate on your comment and, given that every inquiry since 1939 has focused on fuel reduction in fire-prone areas, do you believe it is time we learnt from Aboriginal Australians, whose firestick management practices created the bush environment that white Australians are attempting to modify to a landscape that has never existed? Tony Windsor Independent MP

      Prime Minister Kevin Rudd replied

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