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To the Australian Bushfires Story on Page 3 UpdateFebruary 2020 Vol 28, No. 1 Thrice Yearly Newsletter The world reacts to the Australian bushfires Story on page 3. First All-Indigenous NSW firefighting Bushfire survival stories from Inside Update crews 10 Victoria’s east 17 Media late to the game on An inspiring story from an ABC Friend 18 ‘unprecedented’ fires 11 From the Editor 2 Bushfire Report from Mid North The ABC praised for its ‘vital’ Coast Branch 19 Australia’s Catastrophic Bushfires 4 emergency reporting 12 Fires and Floods on the North Coast How much does it cost the ABC to ABC coverage of the Australian of NSW 19 cover a bushfire crisis? 5 bushfires 12 From our President 20 ABC under ‘growing’ cost pressure 6 Witnessing the horror and the best of ABC Emergency Broadcasting (EB) 21 ABC Friends Media Release 7 humanity on the South Coast 13 ABC Emergency Broadcasts 22 Letters 8 Lauren Hamilton’s experience of the fires 14 ABC problems in bushfire coverage 23 ‘Life and death’: ABC battles to restore damaged networks 9 Kylie’s Bushfire story 16 ABC Friends National Update, February 2020, Vol 28, No 1 1 Update Publication Information From the Editor Update is published three times a year by ABC Friends National Inc. PO Box 3620 Manuka ACT 2603 Print Post approved: PP245059/00002. elcome to our special Bushfire which would keep them and their families Extracts from newspapers and other Edition of Update. These fires safe. publications appearing in Update do Whave been described by British We acknowledge the contribution of not necessarily reflect the views of the natural historian David Attenborough as ‘a members of ABC Friends. hundreds of ABC staff, many returning major international catastrophe.’ We bring early from leave and working in extreme Update is distributed to all members of you some gripping personal accounts of ABC Friends as part of the membership conditions to bring you the stories, the fee. Update is also supplied to bushfire experiences, comments from our pictures, the sound and the essential journalists, politicians and libraries National President Margaret Reynolds and emergency information. It is ironic that across Australia. Vice-President Ed Davis, selected articles amongst those ABC staff there will be some Update is edited and produced in from journalists, reports from the ABC, facing redundancy as a result of the recent Sydney and contributions are welcome and the observations of many ordinary from state and regional branches. Email $83.7million budget cuts inflicted on the your contribution (in Microsoft Word) to Australians on the role of the ABC as our ABC by the Morrison government, on top of [email protected] or Emergency Broadcaster throughout this the $250m in cuts since 2014. post to address below extraordinary summer in Australia. Rest assured that ABC Friends will be in Material may be quoted or reproduced We dedicate this Update to those who from Update provided the source is Canberra when parliament resumes to acknowledged and reproduction is sent have given their lives in defending their demand the restoration of funds so that to the Editor at the above email or postal communities, and the thousands of the ABC can continue to provide all of the address. volunteers and professionals who have given services that the Australian public have the so much of themselves in the fight to protect Would you like to receive right to expect from their publicly funded the lives and properties of others, and our Update newsletter broadcaster. native flora and fauna. electronically? May I thank on behalf of all ABC Friends Save the planet’s trees and ABC Friends’ Our focus, of course, is on the vital role my valued colleagues Dr Diana Wyndham, printing and postage costs and read played by the ABC as the Emergency Angela Williamson and Paul Martens, who Update on your tablet or computer. When Broadcaster, and so often, when all other Update is published, you will receive an have worked very hard to bring you this email with a link to the latest issue (each communication failed in extreme conditions, special Bushfire Edition of Update. newsletter is a 2-3MB PDF). it was the ABC which was the source of You can try this now by going to the information which enabled people in Mal Hewitt OAM www.fabcnsw.org.au and clicking on desperate circumstances to make decisions ABC Friends “Newsletter”. If you prefer this delivery option for future Updates please contact your local state branch (see back page). Who to write… Anyone seeking basic information about writing to persons of influence might find it helpful to go to www.fabcnsw.org.au where there are some menu items under “Be Active” leading to pages of information: Who can I write to? What can I say? Update Editor - Mal Hewitt PO Box 1391 North Sydney 2059 [email protected] Production Manager - Angela Williamson [email protected] Assistant Editor - Dr Diana Wyndham Cartoonist - Phil Somerville Phil currently runs an online topical cartoon by paid subscription called Line of Thought. Enquire at phil.somerville@ somervillecartoons.com Layout Artist - Paul Martens [email protected] 2 ABC Friends National Update, February 2020, Vol 28, No 1 unbreathable air in Australia because of institution that the Coalition and puppet raging forest fires”. masters Murdoch want extinct. Elizabeth Warren: The catastrophic Darren Chester, MP – ABC Melbourne scenes from Australia’s wildfires should broadcasting live from Bairnsdale 5 alarm all of us. Climate change is driving January. Thanks for your coverage. The even more dangerous and destructive fires The team at Gippsland ABC has been world reacts... across the world, from California to New incredible providing the latest fire safety continued from page 1 South Wales—and we must fight together warnings all week. It’s wet and cold to defeat this crisis. today – welcome respite but a lot of work A prominent member of Boris Johnson’s to be done. n 4 January, The Guardian in cabinet says the nation is “heartbroken” by Phillip Coorey – Just emerged from London led with an article about the devastation caused in Australia by the days of hell on the coast. Cannot believe Othe Australian bushfires with a bushfire crisis. The devastation prompted attacks on ABC. It is the ONLY reliable striking picture of a kangaroo fleeing a wall condolence messages from the Queen source of info, everyone is tuned in. Its of flames. Australian fires keep dominating and other members of the Royal Family. real time broadcasting is saving lives, international news. More than 1,772 Prince Charles has delivered a heartfelt property and helping us understand our people Tweeted about the 4 January video message to Australia, saying he and situation re fire threats, road, petrol, food article and these are some of them: his wife have been in despair watching the etc. Hilary Clinton: With Australia on fire and “appalling horror” of the country’s bushfire Tony Koch – Listening to radio and the Arctic in meltdown, it’s clear we’re in a crisis. watching TV on the devastating climate emergency. bushfires, am struck by the Al Gore: Among the risks of the climate Australian Tweets included: professionalism of journalists but crisis is a normalization of its horrific and Gaven Morris (ABC Director News, particularly the job the ABC is doing over deadly consequences. The bushfires Analysis and Investigations): For all the laws the country. Magnificent coverage as in Australia represent a startling climate Australia’s governments have changed usual in disasters. We owe a debt to our catastrophe unfolding before us. and the billions of dollars spent to protect ABC – they save lives. Bernie Sanders: What is happening in us from terrorism, this is what terror in Anne Summers, AO – Thank you ABC Australia today will become increasingly Australia looks like. Many innocent lives, journos for doing the tremendous life- common around the world if we do not thousands of properties and millions of saving work. Australia owes you. aggressively combat climate change and animals lost. Lucy Turnbull, AO – Listening to @ABC transform our energy system away from Simon Chapman, AO – The ABC’s news streaming radio south NSW. What fossil fuels. The future of the planet is coverage of this fire disaster has been an incredible national service that informs at stake. We must act. “I say to those utterly first class. Without them the national us and brings us all together, whenever who are delaying action on climate would be in the dark. Imagine the anxiety we are. Loving #OurABC more than ever change: Look at the blood-red sky and and panic. A reminder this is our iconic at this truly horrible time. Northern Suburbs of Sydney Branch (NSoS) MEDIA RELEASE ABC Friends National Update, February 2020, Vol 28, No 1 3 Australia’s Catastrophic Bushfires There has been a Professor Ed Davis AM deep economic toll. President of NSW Friends AMP Capital chief economist Shane Oliver has predicted that the fires will ‘We are in the midst of the wipe $20 billion from sixth mass extinction and the Gross Domestic extinction rate is up to 10,000 Product. The times faster than what is impact on tourism, considered normal, with up to both domestic and 200 species becoming extinct international, is every single day. Erosion of massive. Neglect fertile topsoil. Deforestation of the environment of our great forests. Toxic air has direct economic pollution. Loss of insects and consequences. As wildlife. The acidification of our the Sydney Morning oceans’. Herald’s economics This is Greta Thunberg, teenage Swedish editor Ross Gittins schoolgirl, climate warrior and Time argued on 22 January magazine Person of the Year in 2019.
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