Jan 12 2014

With great respect, again, a Bushfire Trigger Warning applies to this important post.

9 years ago today... Jan 12, 2014.

Another sad and significant commemoration for our Community.

The Stoneville-Parkerville-Mt Helena bushfire catastrophe.

57 homes destroyed, and thousands impacted by a blaze that burned for 3 long weeks.

But we all know, bushfire trauma doesn’t end when the bushfire is out.

It’s taken almost 9 years of legal battles for Australia’s High Court to conclude that Western Power had a ‘DUTY OF CARE’ around the cause of this disaster.

Our thoughts are with all of you who endured the trauma of Jan 12 – Feb 1, and who continue to do so...

This is the bushfire $atterley and the Anglican Diocese pretended never happened to Stoneville. Their glossy North $toneville rhetoric omitted Stoneville from the 2014 bushfire emergency.

Shame on you, we say.

Save Perth Hills stands strong for all whose lives are permanently changed by this bushfire.

We stand united and committed to ensuring future planning in our Hills safeguards, not endangers, our increasingly bushfire prone community.

And we will never, ever forget...

January 3rd 2008

With the greatest respect... A **Bushfire Trigger Alert** applies to this important post.

We recognise this challenging time of year for our Community. We’re hyper-aware of bushfires, and the increasing number of tragic reminders and commemorations they cause. Today is one of those days... January 3rd, 2008 - a windy and blistering 40+degrees. A bushfire blazed through parts of Parkerville and Stoneville, trapping people on their properties, in their homes, even in a dam. All fearing for their lives. It burned on Anglican-owned land bordering ‘North $toneville’. Anglican Archbishop Kay Goldsworthy has the power to STOP ‘North $toneville’. Indeed, just 10 days ago the Archbishop acknowledged - in her Christmas message: 'the intense challenges and adversity from the ravages of devastating bushfires...’. Yet, at the same time, her Diocese, and business partner $atterley, are pulling together their 'amended' plan to cram 4,000+ people into North $toneville’s proven Extreme Bushfire Zone. Today, we stand with those remembering... JOIN US at 10am, Sunday February 5, at Sculpture Park Mundaring, where we will unite - AGAIN - to END the utter stupidity of KNOWINGLY putting THOUSANDS of people in HARM'S WAY – to pocket an easy profit - by those who should know better.

Community Rally

You've all been asking and here it is!

COMMUNITY RALLY!

SUNDAY - FEB 5, 10am - Sculpture Park, Mundaring

A BLOCKBUSTER Community Rally to "SAY NO AGAIN", to proposed North $toneville.

$atterley has once AGAIN chosen a challenging time of year to launch an ‘amended’ plan in January – during school holidays, and the height of Bushfire season.

No amount of tweaking will make this urbanisation plan safe. That's why our Council, Community, DFES and WA’s highest planning authority, WAPC, have ALL REJECTED it.

We knew this plan was wrong in 2018!

Urbanisation of this site has been wrong - for 32 YEARS!

Add Climate Change disasters, the droughts, the floods the bushfires, Australia’s Summer of Fires.

And – the Wooroloo Mega Fire last year - 87 homes lost and burning 5 kms from this site.

We’ll welcome esteemed experts to our Rally – among them - BOB BROWN, Founder of the Greens – Australia’s Environmental Legend.

More info soon – for now Save the Date. Feb 5 - and join our Hills Community to get ready to "SAY NO AGAIN" to ‘North $toneville’.