Every summer, we make sure that we have the very best equipment, the very best machinery, the very best of tech anywhere in the world, as well as the quantities of those machines that we need.
Whether it is fixed wing, rotary, with the forward looking ultraviolet cameras. The notion of being able to – infrared I should say, being able to do water bombing at night for instance.
That has been a feature of firefighting in Victoria certainly last season and I think we did some trailing the season before. We are always looking to have more but also better get, if you like, so that our career and volunteer firefighters have everything they possibly need.
I think there is a great opportunity out of this tragedy and out of the royal commission process to be a much more, if you like, supplies firefighting effort.
I think there are some products we shouldn’t be importing, we should be making them right here and I think Victoria is very well-placed to do that.
The notion that fire seasons are getting longer and more dangerous on both sides of the world, so the notion of us… In recent years, we have had to do things we never had to before, competing with the northern hemisphere for machinery and equipment because we have had fires at almost the same time.
Their fire season running late and now is coming very, very early.
So the more we can do to be as self-sufficient as possible, the better.
