The Royal Commission into the 2009 Black Saturday Victorian bushfires has concluded and its final report has been handed down.  The report has not been discussed in detail here in part because the report does not actually determine what the law is.

I did have some comments on the Royal Commission and also on the litigation that is continuing before the ACT Supreme Court arising from the 2003 Canberra fires.  I presented these as a paper at the 2010 Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conference in Wellington, New Zealand in July. 

You can downloand the presentation slides here: Wellington_2010

Michael Eburn

26 September 2010