More fire breaks need to be put in place!.

Mate , I think its something thats disappeared from a lot of gov. Depts.!!

Dead rght mate!, and for Every stupid issue they can muster up, creates another job in their little taxpayer funded world.

My neighbour, lovely lady, used to have every kind of animal under the sun. She named her place "sanctuary". Now she has 2 dogs. When the council *amalgamated* (they got a pay and ego rise), we found that our rural area ended up with some of the same rules as someone living in a high rise in Surfers. It broke her heart.
Now they are subdividing the whole of our area which will destroy it. Infastructure won't cope. Locals don't want it. It's a special area that tourists love...at the moment.
The developers have enough money to buy anyone that gets in the way, councils are cheap enough.

Sorry to tell you that the b@stards have already got that one covered...

Found this on the Reserve Bank website ...

"According to the Currency Act 1965, coins are legal tender for payment of amounts which are limited as follows:

-not exceeding 20c if 1c and/or 2c coins are offered (however, it should be noted that these coins have been withdrawn from circulation but are still legal tender);

-not exceeding $5 if any of 5c, 10c, 20c and 50c coins are offered;

-not exceeding 10 times the face value if coins in the range 50c to $10 inclusive are offered"

Red60

"Those Fire's are a direct result from not Back Burning" No Shane the fires are a direct result of over 60 lightning strikes on tinder dry bush following the dryest summer on record for 50 years. There has been extensive back burning during these fires although I do believe you meant there hasn't been enough fuel reduction burns prior to the summer. Even then you would be wrong as Parks & DSE were unable to do many controlled burns due to the very short spring period where conditions were right before the bush became too dry. In the North East area I saw several control burns done including one at Rose river which just saved a complete pine plantation & several houses. In 2004/5 nearly 1/4 of the bush seemed to be lit up in controlled burns around private property following the disasterous 2003 fires. So in reality what could be done was done & no preparations could have stopped this natural disaster & I'm amazed you haven't worked that one out. LOL :-))
And if you could forget your petty issues for a moment on the term used for a "fire break" I'm sure the communities around the High Country would appreciate your help by standing along side the other 3000 vollunteers instead of blaming others ;-)
Cheers Craig.........