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DomesticPolitix: A trip to Bunnings to buy a backyard bunker or the Sarah Connor Chronicles of bushfire warfare
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Friday, February 13, 2009. A trip to Bunnings to buy a backyard bunker or the Sarah Connor Chronicles of bushfire warfare. DH went to a local fire meeting up here in the Melbourne Dandenongs and came back armed with new information for our fire plan. So we sat down and went over the plan again last night. We realise now that we had not read the CFA “living in the bush” info kit closely enough. Nor had we taken the threat of bushfire quite seriously enough. We’ll need an extensive sprinkler system o...
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DomesticPolitix: March 2009
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Thursday, March 5, 2009. Bushfire evacuees, glorious hospitality and dodgy supervisors. During the bushfire season so far this year, we have left home on three occasions when a fire was in our suburb or in the suburb next door. On each occassion our very good friends have managed to put us up at short notice. All 11 heartbeats of us. If I haven't mentioned it before, we live in a "wildfire zone" in the Yarra Ranges, and rather than that being an abstract concept, we now understand what it means. In our c...
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DomesticPolitix: Bushfire evacuees, glorious hospitality and dodgy supervisors
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Thursday, March 5, 2009. Bushfire evacuees, glorious hospitality and dodgy supervisors. During the bushfire season so far this year, we have left home on three occasions when a fire was in our suburb or in the suburb next door. On each occassion our very good friends have managed to put us up at short notice. All 11 heartbeats of us. If I haven't mentioned it before, we live in a "wildfire zone" in the Yarra Ranges, and rather than that being an abstract concept, we now understand what it means. In our c...
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DomesticPolitix: 11 heartbeats seek shelter
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Friday, February 20, 2009. 11 heartbeats seek shelter. On Sunday afternoon our menagerie increased by 4. We picked up chooks and were putting the finishing touches on the chook shed when we heard the Upwey, Tecoma and Upper Ferntree Gully CFA Fire sirens ring. It was hot and blustery: bad bush fire weather. Not sure why Upwey residents weren't named in the alert given the proximity to the fire. Our good friends who took us in that night didn't know what they were getting themselves in for! Paradoxical be...
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DomesticPolitix: February 2009
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Friday, February 20, 2009. 11 heartbeats seek shelter. On Sunday afternoon our menagerie increased by 4. We picked up chooks and were putting the finishing touches on the chook shed when we heard the Upwey, Tecoma and Upper Ferntree Gully CFA Fire sirens ring. It was hot and blustery: bad bush fire weather. Not sure why Upwey residents weren't named in the alert given the proximity to the fire. Our good friends who took us in that night didn't know what they were getting themselves in for! A trip to Bunn...
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DomesticPolitix: August 2009
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Monday, August 24, 2009. वहत'स विथ तुर्निंग ल माय वोर्ड्स इन्तो हिन्दी? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Beautiful sunset from Upwey. Paradoxical beauty from the Victorian Bushfires, Saturday Feb 7, 2009. Lecturer in economic-social geography, mum, writer, current affairs commentator, feminist, geek, reformed Marxist, environmentalist-ish. View my complete profile. Http:/ arts.monash.edu.au/ges/staff/esutherland.php. Http:/ offthecuffstuff.blogspot.com/. Http:/ greengeecko.blogspot.com/.
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DomesticPolitix: The risks and rewards of living in the bush
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009. The risks and rewards of living in the bush. We live on Melbourne’s urban fringe. Upwey. The old signs coming up the mountain near us used to say “Welcome to the Blue Dandenongs”. We are first home buyers who moved to Melbourne almost 7 years ago having lived in various city and urban areas in NSW and VIC. We felt we had discovered a eucalyptus el dorado when we happened upon the area in real estate pages. More often though, it’s not nearly as dramatic: we get home fro...
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DomesticPolitix: CFA not omnipotent
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Monday, February 9, 2009. We turned the radio on after we smelt smoke. When we stepped outside we couldn't believe what we saw. Only moments before we had been watching a DVD trying to take our minds off the heat and we hadn't been outside for more than 2 hours. The radio alerts, coupled with the roar of hot wind, brown sky, smoke and heat like I've never experienced, were unnerving. What should we pack? Should we have already left? Were we prepared enough to stay? If we left, what roads should we use?
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DomesticPolitix: What do we expect of the CFA?
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Monday, February 9, 2009. What do we expect of the CFA? It's a tricky business; fighting fires. For the most part, everyone can't stop extolling the virtues of the CFA. But now a couple of days after the tragic loss of life across Victoria as a result of widespread vicious bushfires, the blame game has started and Victorian Premiere John Brumby, has announced the need for a Royal Commission into Victoria's bushfire strategy. 3) That those who had fire plans didn't have warning enough to activate them; and.