Bushfire Inquiry Deadline

24th Sept Inquiry Deadline

It took the State Government more than 6 months to call the Wooroloo Bushfire Inquiry - but we only have until Sept 24 to get submissions in - it’s time to get moving!

The Inquiry will examine - ‘the bushfire response, fuel management, mitigation activities and communications.‘

Save Perth Hills will make a submission on the need for safer Planning and Development in and around Extreme Bushfire Zones.

Incredibly, ‘Planning and Development’ is not an official agenda item - (surely, prevention is better than cure?)... but there’s capacity to offer up whatever YOU feel is important.

These terrible catastrophes always offer lessons, but learnings can only happen if communities offer feedback.

You can upload videos or photos to support your points, and you can write as much or as little as you want.

Contact us (email or FB) if you have any questions.

And CC your submission to us if you like - saveperthhillsinc@gmail.com

It’d be great to get a feel for where bushfire communities like ours, think we need to head.

https://www.wa.gov.au/.../independent-review-of-the-2021...

Bushfire Inquiry Announced

https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/.../Inquiry-into...

Finally... an inquiry into Perth Hills’ worst bushfire catastrophe.

We’re relieved - on behalf of our affected community members, that some closure might result.

But...

We’re dismayed ‘Planning’ is NOT on the 'agenda' (Terms of Reference).

We lobbied local member, Matthew Hughes, Emergency Services Minister Reece Whitby, and Premier McGowan, hard, for Planning to be included.

Plans like $atterley’s dangerous North $toneville have no place in extreme bushfire zones. But still, they can be brought to the table.

So, what a missed opportunity to deny PLANNING a seat at that table - with its potential to reduce, even AVOID, some of the terrible outcomes bushfires can bring.

The fact developers can even present plans to cram thousands into recognised bushfire zones tells us WA is failing bushfire prone communities.

Local Federal member Ken Wyatt - Hasluck, secured Planning on the National 2020 Summer of Fires Royal Commission, recognising safer planning can help to save lives - and homes, in bushfires.

This inquiry, hopefully, will offer lessons in better bushfire response. And that’s incredibly important for us all.

But we must also respond BEFORE bushfires begin, and that involves, without doubt, safer - not dangerous planning in our bushfire-prone zones.

General Meeting

Save Perth Hills General Meeting - 8th Aug

Today we showcased the hard work and many achievements of our Committee and our incredible Community, in the on-going battle against $atterley and the Anglican Church’s dangerous and destructive North $toneville proposal.

We wanted to share with you and say special thanks to Federal Member for Hasluck, Ken Wyatt for his videomessage of support from Canberra. Ken talks about the remnant ancient forests that make up our unique region - it's a special and beautiful message.

Thanks too, to 70+ loyal locals who joined us, along with Jessica Shaw MLA (Labor MLA Swan Hills) and Lorna Harper MLC, our councillors, President Daw, Cr Jeans and Cr Collins, and Mundaring Council candidates Paige McNeil (Central), Neridah Zlatnik and Melanye Warwrick (East Ward).

Another SAT (Appeal) mediation is scheduled next Thursday - as $atterley tries, for the 8th time, to overcome insurmountable bushfire risks and environmental obstacles.

Thanks to your unwavering support, we’re making great progress on behalf of our bushfire prone community, and potentially, for other bushfire regions.

Keen to see that elusive Wooroloo Bushfire Inquiry to be called... (waiting, waiting, waiting...)