Photo courtesy “The Local” Vale Dr Kevin Tolhurst, AM Those community members who managed to attend the Howitt Society’s public meeting yesterday in Mallacoota couldn’t fail to come away with a better understanding of the role fuel plays in the severity of bushfires and the impact of this on communities and the overall health of […]

Above photograph is of an area of mulched or masticated vegetation starting to appear on the edge of some urban areas and elsewhere, apparently to help protect the communities from bushfire and act as firebreaks. The yellow arrow points to a garden rake placed to bring scale to the photograph. The red arrow points to […]