What do you expect when a government is made up of incompetents who owe their jobs to filthy branch stackers? Every one of them should be in jail.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/academics-predicted-black-saturday-bushfires-20100209-npqt.html

A REPORT that predicted Black Saturday with eerie accuracy and warned that emergency information and advice could fail to get through was virtually ignored by the Victorian government, its authors say.

The authors say most of their advice was echoed in "remarkably similar" recommendations in the 2009 Bushfires Royal Commission's interim report.

"It is concerning that our information about a theoretical situation that was almost identical to that which actually occurred on Black Saturday has been available for four years, but most of our practical recommendations have not been used," they wrote.