PLANNED burns are key to reducing the severity of bush fires with a recommendation from the Royal Commission into the Black Saturday fires in 2009 (which killed 173 people) urging a program of prescribed burning of at least five per cent of public land per year. Photo: SPEC FILE.
By Admin
November 15, 2022 | 10:00 AM
AS we approach the State Election, the recent disastrous floods are still fresh in our minds, even though Victoria’s Western District was relatively unscathed.
Many confronting images of inundated properties and towns have featured in the media.