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Our Antipodes, (Mundie, 1852) pg 597, we find a comment about Melbourne just one month before the 1851 big fire;
20/01/1851;
Melbourne is a well-laid-out ugly town, containing about 20,000 inhabitants. The adjacent country, visible from the highest look-out, is but poorly sprinkled with trees, and is, at present, herb less to a degree that i never saw elsewhere, even in New South Wales...
The reason methinks why old Melbourne didn't burn in the big fire of 1851 were the large fire break all round the town.
And lessons for today's bush towns....
" THE Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission’s final report last weekend is the whitewash nobody even noticed.
For a whitewash, that’s as good as you can get... "
Column - Why were the Black Saturday guilty not named? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
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