Originally Posted by
Squawk7700
They have discovered that to the unique and never before seen magnitude of some of these fires that it is pointless to try and fight them with what would literally equate to a bug on a windshield splash of water.
The issue is how they got so big in the first place...Because we don't,
as a nation have sufficient assets to stop small fires becoming big fires.
For ScoMo to say "Bushfires are a state issue" shows how little concept he has about the significance of worsening fire seasons. NSW can't afford a fleet of CL-415's (we're too busy building new football stadiums), but Australia happily
gives away $4 Billion a year in foreign aid. At today's exchange rate, that's 80 CL-415's. Or 70 if you budget for maintenance & crewing too. Putting 10 at a time in a racetrack dumping onto any fledgling bushfire this season could well have stopped what we've witnessed so far - and we are still a couple months away from the end of the bushfire season, with 1,500+ homes
already gone, triple that in outbuildings destroyed and over a dozen dead with twice that still missing. What's the economic cost of all that devastation?
It's all well and good to say "but the 'Murican's are the experts at that kind of thing" and I would agree that that is a true statement. But there is nothing stopping
us following in their footsteps instead of continually contracting out the job. We just don't have a government with the will to take ownership of the issue - because footy grounds and better internet in PNG are more important.
