Scott Morrison,

because of your refusal to meet with Mr Greg Mullins and his team of fire, emergency and climate experts last year, Australia will never be the same again.

The lack of any timely action to prevent or minimize the devastation caused by 2019/20 bush fires makes your government responsible for the deaths of 33 people, over two billion native animals and tens of thousands of farm animals, destruction of 14 million hectares of premium land including national parks, rain forests, animal reserves, sanctuaries, historic towns, villages, shops, farms, orchards and wineries, other businesses, three thousand + houses etc, thousands of people homeless, businesses going broke, people getting sick ... and SO much more!

Don't make the same mistake again!

Stop wasting our money on subsidies to gas companies and feasibility studies into coal fired power stations and invest some of it in fire fighting equipment including large air tankers - preferably before the country is on fire again.

Few more large air tankers and helicopters is really not much to ask, when you consider the massive and still growing cost of NOT having adequate firefighting equipment during the 2019/20 fire season.

State of California runs 24 large air tankers for a land area half that of NSW, so why shouldn't we have at least that many here - in a much bigger, hotter and drier Australia?

Putting out bushfires as quickly and efficiently as possible MUST be our country’s first priority - whatever the cost! 

Not having enough firefighting capacity would have cost exponentially more than even hundred extra planes would have and the damage bill is going up daily.

You may be a Prime minister, but that doesn't give you the right to let our country burn or make people and animals suffer.

Your government had demonstrated complete disregard for our safety and well being, repeatedly put our people and animals in grave danger and don’t seem at all concerned about risking the lives of our amazing fire fighters - by refusing to provide them with ALL the equipment they need, to put out fires as safely and as quickly as possible.  

Mr Morrison - get some good advice, talk to the fire chiefs (ex & present) and start treating climate driven bush fires with the respect they deserve. Way too much of the country had burnt already for you to keep avoiding the subject. People will not forget the fires, no matter how hard you try to.

Thank you

Lumir Cech  (ACT Australia)

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(Petition updated 17/2/20)