Bushfires a human tragedy beyond belief

As reported by smh.com.au – 9th February 2009

Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, her voice wavering with choked-up emotion, has told the nation’s Parliament the Victorian bushfire tragedy will remembered as one of the darkest days in Australia’s peacetime history.

She offered Parliament’s deepest and most sincere condolences to suffering families and to lost communities.

“The seventh of February 2009 will now be remembered as one of the darkest days Read more