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		<title>5 Years on &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The failure to learn and go forward from bushfire disasters is a sad indictment of a modern society. We constantly hear the excuses after all large bushfires, including the 2003 disaster, that blame shouldn&#8217;t be apportioned because people are supposed to have done the best they could in difficult circumstances. It is not &#8220;blame&#8221; that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firebreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=565295&amp;post=158&amp;subd=firebreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bushfire in Namadgi National Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Namadgi fire contained ABC Website Posted January 14, 2008 14:17:00 Helicopters called in to fight Namadgi blaze ABC Website Posted January 14, 2008 10:33:00 Update No 3 &#8211; 3:00pm 14/1/2008 The ACT Rural Fire Service advise the bushfire in southern part of the Namadgi National Park is now contained. Fire crews have commenced mopping up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firebreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=565295&amp;post=157&amp;subd=firebreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fire towers left unmanned</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fire towers left unmanned From ABC website October 4, 2007 &#8220;Emergency Services Minister Simon Corbell says it is usual practice to man the towers in the high danger period between 12:00pm and 05:00pm AEST.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firebreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=565295&amp;post=156&amp;subd=firebreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Start of Bushfire Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Record dry puts heat on fire season from Canberra Times &#8220;It&#8217;s not going to take very much for that vegetation to dry out and be susceptible to fire.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firebreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=565295&amp;post=155&amp;subd=firebreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catastrophic fires &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fire danger up 300pc by mid-century: CSIRO from ABC Website September 26, 2007 Chief officer with the Country Fire Service in South Australia, Euan Ferguson, warns that more bushfires like those that devastated Canberra in 2003 and SA&#8217;s Eyre Peninsula in 2005 are likely. &#8220;It reinforces our message that there will be times when no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firebreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=565295&amp;post=153&amp;subd=firebreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Firefighters at risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACT Govt put firefighters at risk from the Canberra Times 23 September 2007 &#8221; &#8230; there was now no reliable system to track vehicles and relay vital information during a big bushfire.&#8221; &#8220;You need a system to back up the people on the ground, to get what we call a common operating picture.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firebreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=565295&amp;post=152&amp;subd=firebreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Firefighter denied reply</title>
		<link>http://firebreak.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/firefighter-denied-reply/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ESA re-structure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A leading volunteer firefighter has taken the unusual step of seeking a &#8220;citizen’s right of reply&#8221; in the Legislative Assembly to respond to statements made by Emergency Services However, the Assembly’s administration and procedure committee members split on whether the issue warranted a reply. Liberal MLA Brendan Smyth and Greens MLA De Foskey believed it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firebreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=565295&amp;post=154&amp;subd=firebreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Application for Citizen&#8217;s Right of Reply: President of the ACT &#8211; the reply &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[STANDING COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURE AUGUST 2007 Mr Pat Barling, on behalf of the ACT Volunteer Brigades Association, has made an application under the procedure adopted by the Assembly on 4 May 1995, for the publication of a citizen’s right of reply to references made in the Legislative Assembly on 15 March 2007. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firebreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=565295&amp;post=150&amp;subd=firebreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CITIZENS&#8217; RIGHT OF REPLY</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACT Volunteer Brigades Association take offence at remarks made in the Legislative Assembly by Simon Corbell, Minister for Police &#38; Emergency Services about the Association during parliamentary debate on the 15 March 2007 as reported in the EDITED PROOF TRANSCRIPT. Our Association wishes to use the process of Citizens&#8217; Right of Reply to respond to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firebreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=565295&amp;post=151&amp;subd=firebreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FIRELINK &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://firebreak.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/149/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACT Firelink system &#8216;waste of money&#8217; from ABC website Fri Jul 13 &#8220;We&#8217;ve really bought a sledgehammer to peel peanuts,&#8221; Company takes legal action after fire communications dumped from ABC website Fri Jul 13 ESA&#8217;s $4.5m system blunder from the Canberra Times Fri Jul 13 UPDATE 14 July 2007 Govt and ministers blamed for FireLink [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firebreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=565295&amp;post=149&amp;subd=firebreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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