Black Saturday
Harriet SHING (Eastern Victoria – Minister for Housing, Minister for Water, Minister for Equality) (09:47): We are marking the anniversary of the horrific Black Saturday bushfires at present, and with more than 1.1 million acres of land destroyed, 173 lives lost and thousands of buildings razed to the ground 15 years ago, I want to send my love and my thoughts to and express my shared pain with those who continue to remember and indeed to grapple with the trauma of so much lost. To everybody who continues to move through this, this work goes on to make sure that we have fire preparation and emergency resilience front of mind now and into the future.