Something else too which I think is important – having strong volunteering organisations who can provide support with natural disasters. We haven’t been affected in this state by the recent devastating floods, but our towns volunteers have recently travelled interstate to the flood areas to help.  Fortunately, the army is now also involved.

Because of our irresponsible govt who had cut funding to fire services, without support from volunteer firefighters, the fires would have been even worse. We have a great CFA in this town, but with forests surrounding us, if we can, we need to get out early when fires come close.