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[cblj_backup]

The death toll's still rising from the fires in Australia and many of them are still not under control.

blamebrampton has a good essay about survival and blame here: So if your news service starts with the question 'what went wrong' and answers it with anything other than 'nature is a fucking bitch in Australia', please tell them to piss off...

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Comments

[qthelights.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think most people understand that there is no answer to what happened. We all live here, we all understand that bushfires happen regularly, and we all realise that what happened this year was above and beyond normal, nature conspired to provide conditions that we could not have foreseen. It's a tragedy, and perhaps some things can be changed for next time - because there will be a next time - but no one did anything wrong this time, no one knew how different this fire would be.

I've seen some news reporters looking for wank to stir up, but for the most part they've been pretty sensible about it all, for which i'm grateful.

[lanoger.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The worst I saw was an interviewer asking a kid where their neighbour was when they where just told by the parents that they were left behind. For the most past though, it has been just survival stories and debate on stay-or-go. The ABC is usually pretty good at this sort of thing.