Wednesday, 19 February 2020
Members statements
Bushfires
Bushfires
Ms GREEN (Yan Yean) (10:05): I want to pay tribute to Kevin and Rhonda Butler and the amazing organisation BlazeAid, which began in Kilmore just over 10 years ago and was so pivotal in rebuilding lives after Black Saturday. They are now operating 31 camps currently across Australia, so I call on people who can volunteer their time to go to the BlazeAid website and see what they can do. In Victoria in particular they have got camps running currently at Bruthen, Buchan, Corryong, Ensay, Lexton, Noorinbee-Cann River and Omeo.
This weekend I will be joining a group of friends—actually from Thursday night—for a ‘cash bash’ for Victoria’s bushfire effort, and I want to congratulate Simon Theobald and Paul Allan. Firefighters who fought fires in the area have said, ‘Let’s go and do something and give something back to these communities’. Melbourne, Mallacoota, Milawa, Mansfield Marathon—it is doing a simple thing: a road trip with empty eskies, empty cars and low fuel, so we can spend money in these fire-affected committees.