Along with members of his cabinet answered questions on the coronavirus outbreak, middle east security, combating Climate Change, and the recent australia wildfires. This is half an hour. Hello and welcome to question time where we play the highlights of question time in australias parliament. Wildfires ravaged the east coast of australia over the summer have died down, the political fallout is just beginning. Question time and parliament began with a bipartisan day honoring those fire victims and thanking the volunteers who helped fight the fires. It did not take long before the conversation quickly turned to politics. My question is to the Prime Minister why does the Prime Minister claim he always acted on the advice of fire commissioners when he ignored for two years their advice to provide determinate boost to australias aerial firefighting capabilities . Mr. Speaker, i think the member for her question, and i pass on again my sincere condolences and sympathies and support to all t
Politics. My question is to the Prime Minister why does the Prime Minister claim he always acted on the advice of fire commissioners when he ignored for two years their advice to provide determinate boost to australias aerial firefighting capabilities . Mr. Speaker, i think the member for her question, and i pass on again my sincere condolences and sympathies and support to all those members in her electorate. I have members in my family who live in your electorate and i want to thank you for the work you have done, as all members have done over the course of this bushfire season in supporting their local communities. I would be grateful if you could do that if you have the opportunity. Mr. Speaker, the member has raised the matter of recommendations that were made, through fire chiefs regarding the air firefighting assets and what the government had done was respond to that with two separate tranches of funding which matched what they originally asked for, and i dealt with this during
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I was texting with friends in Southern California, the general sing consensus, here we go again. Obviously theyve had problems like this before. If we look at the look at the firefighters trying to save the neighborhood, the winds will play a part. We see the right screen. One stream of water seems so insignificant against flames that forced 100,000 people to evacuate. The weather is pretty much what we had in the bay area yesterday. Santa anna winds, 60 or 70 mileperhour winds are. I dont know if they were clocking where the homes were. The area by the way, the creek fire, 15,000 acres. They are no stranger to fires in this particular area off of the 210 interstate 5. Lets check in with sue paulson and see if he has an update. 45 to 50 is what im hearing. Ive seen video. It looks stronger its coming down the hill and it looks like 50 . Also there are major freeways close. It can be isolated in the canyons as well. Theres no doubt about it, east, northeast breeze all the way much of th
The santa ana winds have kicked in, theres a frost advisory also in Mendocino County with temperatures in the 30s, we have our fair share as well, humidity, santa rosa 70 , 5 , 70 for Mountain View and much better there at the offshore direction still in place, not strong but it is there, the south when fairfield north at nine and also davis a northerly breeze not as strong as yesterday, at blackhawk in the Oakland Hills the northeast breeze and the humidity just about 20 . Still a tough breeze, not that strong but it is there. 30s and 50s, and incredible spread on temperatures, 40s 50s, low 40s for some, upper 30s, 37 yesterday at lafayette, 50s this morning for our observat what about now were also looking at some of the other bridges happy friday to. Looks pretty good here, deliberate slowing nothing of the ordinary getting onto san rafael a 22 minute drive from the macarthur bridge better than what the bay bridge a 10 15 way. Nothing out of the ordinary clearing a crash on the san