buzzanddidj wrote on Jan 7^th, 2011 at 6:23am:


And look at the state of the economy and its health when Howard was in, and look where that got him in 2007.

So its nice to use job figures, but it means little doesnt it to what the voters perceive as important measures.

What is even more funny was you dragged up the Kennent issue, yet the ALP had 11 years to do something about it didnt they.

Verge wrote on Jan 7^th, 2011 at 11:17am:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 7^th, 2011 at 12:34pm:


Buzz hates anything normal   

FRED. wrote on Jan 7^th, 2011 at 12:38pm:



Buzz has never explained why he is so anti-Liberal in anything he sees.

This thread - criticising a Government in its infancy having picked up a right old mess from years of poor administration - is pretty much an example of it.

"It is they who have left people like my demographic high and dry."

**sob**

A demographic of one.

You are, without doubt, in a demographic all of your own, hicks.

Oh buzz,  you are selecting text that suits YOUR agenda -  never mind the fact that My Brumby seemed to think he knows better than the recommendations made by The Bushfire Commission. 



Former premier John Brumby rejected the commission's buyout recommendation, saying it could actually increase fire risk by leaving some homes surrounded by empty overgrown properties and it would be too costly.

His government also made an extreme estimate, based on every home in 52 at-risk towns, that the scheme would cost $20 billion.

During the election campaign, the coalition promised to commit $50 million to kick-start the other recommendation to replace overhead power lines with underground cables.

The former Brumby government had baulked at this proposal, after its consultants estimated it would cost up to $20 billion.




University of New South Wales associate professor of electrical engineering, Trevor Blackburn, said while placing power lines underground had its challenges, it would reduce the risk of bushfires.

Prof Blackburn said underground cables were relatively problem-free in urban areas but started to run into transmission problems when laid over longer distances, such as in regional or rural areas.

But he said the challenges were not insurmountable, just more expensive."I think if you want to prevent those sorts of situations that happened in the bushfires in Victoria ... you've got to pay a bit more money and make the system less prone to these sorts of problems and one way of doing that is just to put them underground."

Prof Blackburn said if faults occurred in underground cables it could be trickier to locate the problem and fix it.

However, he said the underground cables were less likely to experience the same volume of problems plaguing overhead wires, which are affected by wind, breakage, falling objects and lightening strikes.

The commission's final report recommended progressively replacing the SWER and 22,000 volt power lines with underground cables or other technology, prioritising those in high-risk areas in the first decade.

The report's "retreat and resettlement" proposal suggests a voluntary buyout scheme for existing developments in unacceptably high bushfire risk areas.