Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Fires in Australia

We in Europe often forget how big Oz is & how low generally the population density is. But NSW is pretty crowded.
I had a new American MD when I was Global SC Director of a rubber company supplying industrial rubber to the mining industry.
He blithely told me he tour Oz. Arriving late day 1 he would have breakfast with the Perth team & lunch with the local HO in Melbourne.
I has postcard of Oz imposed on N America , when I showed it him you could see he didn't believe it.

You have to hope the economy locally can recover from this.

It has been a fashion for a few years for Italian couples to honeymoon in Australia. Since they don't know the country so they leave the tour planning to travel agents who, as far as I can see, don't know the country either and go by travel brochures. In a week or so they are sent to Sydney, Melbourne, Kangaroo Island, Uluru, and Brisbane. You see them tottering of the plane at places like Uluru totally exhausted having spent more time on aeroplanes than in the tourist attractions. Often the girls are dressed in fashion clothing and wearing totally inappropriate high heels.

If they manage to stay together after a honeymoon like that they are probably set for life.

Well done that man

Great stuff....
"There was no real chance this would happen before the fireworks but let’s see what comes of this."

Nice touch. Well done the Opera House.

It was a nice touch and good to be touched today by the best bit of rain in months.....

No rain for well over 2 months and then we get the hail storm from hell. The good news is I can now see the mountains from my window that I have not seen for over 2 months thanks to too much smoke, the bad news is I drove my car to work

Not sure whether to feel lucky or unlucky about my job. Over a year ago I retired and my boss and other staff were joking that I was going to return once I sorted out my pension to earn enough money for that Morgan I always talked about. Anyway that job actually materialised after a very long security check to do the same job I had before and I am now back at work. Not sure if that is good or bad as my pension is really well over adequate and I was enjoying driving my car so much I was thinking why bother going back to work to buy a different fun car.

Unfortunately I got the call last week to start so drove to work today parked in the car park and now I have a car with dents in every panel a roof with lots of holes in it. The roof is bad but I am more worried about the expense of the panel repairs as it has hundred of dents everywhere.



I now wish I said can I have another week off to finish some jobs around the house.

I put in a claim on line, my son who loves my car wanted me to call up thinking I would have more luck convincing them we do not want the car written off as it is fun and rather rare, but when I called them the message was "You are number 159 in the queue the estimated wait time is 15569 minutes and 23 seconds". As that is nearly 11 days I thought just put in an online claim and wait for them to get to me

Not good news Chris. We also got storms and hail but nothing like that.

What a crazy climate country we live in.....

According to the financial press today the fires in Australia will have no impact on their overall economic performance.
A slight fall (0.1% GDP estimate) will be counteracted by a growth in infrastructure investment as people re-build.
28 people lost (I don't have figures for those injured), 2 billion wild animals and some small communities.
But the fires were almost exclusively in "economically inactive land".

Given the media attention to this fire can the consequences be so small?

Reports suggest the fires have added 400 to 450m tonnes of CO2, about the same as the annual release of CO2 coal from Australias mines.
We can do something about coal burning, but not bush fires, it seems.
Food for thought.