Wildlife Victoria You-tube film, "Wildlife survivors - Out of the Ashes"

The Victorian bushfires centred around 14-Feb-09 have seen a tragic irreplaceable loss of life, property and heritage - family members, pets, livestock, wildlife, homes, native habitat, memories, local history, local livelihoods and local values. Human deaths number about 173, which is tragic but Wildlife Victoria reports of millions of wildlife killed in the fires. [SOURCE: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6851576] The reasons why the multiple fires were uncontrolled will be considered by the Victorian Royal Commission, however the root causes are unlikely to be revealed because Brumby's political commission has narrowed the political terms of reference and the commissioner won't bite the hand that feeds them. Once again, we witness absolute dependence by government in times of a state of emergency upon volunteers to lead emergency effort and relief. Once again the goodwill of the public is being tapped for donations, effectively outsourcing funding from public compassion to the victims. Government social conditioning works everytime despite our massive taxes. So hundreds of millions from the public pour in and save the government.. Government spin doctors quickly claim that it did all it could in what it labels an "unprecedented natural disaster" (that should do the trick), it stages a well publicised commemorative service by PM Kev on camera (all at the cost of a return first class flight from Canberra) and encourages generous public donations. More millions pour in from a community losing jobs and struggling with bills, rents, mortgages. Costs mitigated QED! But isn't government responsible for the bushfire prone house designs, for sustainable bushfre protection, for providing the state of the art systems to detect fire ignitions that still don't exist in Australia, for the co-ordinated standby airborne response that didn't occur, for the rapid military speed suppression of small fires before they got out of control, for protecting life property and important habitat from damage to which it failed, for fire fighting services that actually put fire out? Strangely, we have become conditioned to a fire fighting force that lights fires in the bush in case the bush burns at inconvenient moments. And so standard government practice in times of a state of emergency falls back to the Australian culture of volunteer goodwill to meet the challenge. The Red Cross, Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul, all churches and the Country Womens Association to take up the challenge. If a responsible government were to prepare in resources and capability to fund and resource such a state of emergency, its budget would fall short of being able to fund the annual Melbourne Grand Prix and in NSW the new Homebush V8 Supercar racing circuit. Thank God for volunteers to save government from its ethical responsibility! Such volunteers are cheap labour hoodwinked. If human victims are treated with such contempt by government, the prospects for wildlife are extinction.