Its been raining on and off since Monday night and the direct threat of a bushfire reaching the house is now very unlikely :) While both the North and South parts of the “Kilmore East - Murrindindi Complexâ€� are still burning, they have both been marked as “contained” on the DSE websi...

Its been raining on and off since Monday night and the direct threat of a bushfire reaching the house is now very unlikely :) While both the North and South parts of the “Kilmore East - Murrindindi Complexâ€� are still burning, they have both been marked as “contained” on the DSE websi...

The blog posting has been awfully quiet here at SplaTT’s blog for the past month as i have been up at the country place in the gorgeous Upper Yarra Valley keeping an eye on it while the bushfires that started in early February 2009 have been burning in the nearby forests. If you are interested...

The blog posting has been awfully quiet here at SplaTT’s blog for the past month as i have been up at the country place in the gorgeous Upper Yarra Valley keeping an eye on it while the bushfires that started in early February 2009 have been burning in the nearby forests. If you are interested...

David Packham estimated that the energy released in the recent Victorian bushfires was equivalent to 660 Hiroshima bombs. This surprised me and the figure also supports the argument for the need for fuel reduction. I did my own calculations based on the Victorian fires and found that Packham seems t...

It all started with an article written by Ross Gittins about the response by Australians to the bushfires. I don't want to get stuck into the argument about motivations - that's a whole other can of worms. The point that resonates with me is that we have a collective attention span that would shame ...

Welcome to the Hoyden About Town Inaugural Troll-Off! Inspired by Feministe’s Next Top Troll, in the Hoyden Troll-Off you get to vote for the worst. You’ll need to “click to continue” to see all of the contestants, and the poll. 1: First up we have recurrent troll Iain Hall, ...

Other than media outlets, obviously. And lazy vigilantes. A lawyer representing media outlets told the hearing to overturn the suppression order that no evidence had been called to say the man was in danger. He said murderers and pedophiles appeared in court every day and their names were not suppre...

Why would anyone set fire to his own neighbourhood and then sit and watch the blaze?...

The enormity of Australia's climate disaster is further illustrated by the fact that Victoria's bushfires released nearly as much carbon dioxide [ark] as a year of the nation's industrial activity. Climate change caused heat and drought made already fire prone forests a death trap. It is noted this ...