Topic: Bushfires wildfires Red tape held up national bushfire warnings

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Red tape held up national bushfire warnings


It has emerged that a nationwide bushfire alert system could have been in place before the weekend's devastating fires in Victoria, but it was held up by bureaucratic wrangling.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/12/2489357.htm