Link to Dr Kevin Tolhurst’s
article in the Age today, discussing the shortcomings of the bushfire
authority’s current slogan ‘Leave and Live’.
Slogans fall short for bushfire safety
Living in
a bushfire-prone environment is complex and requires more than a lifetime of
experience. For most of us, experiencing a bushfire at our back door might only
be a once-in-a-lifetime event. Therefore we rely on the knowledge of others to
guide us. Condensing
it all into three words – "Leave and Live" – is clearly too
simplistic......
(Dr Tolhurst is associate professor, fire ecology and management, at the University of Melbourne.)
(Dr Tolhurst is associate professor, fire ecology and management, at the University of Melbourne.)
