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"These fires were lit by the hand of man."
Judge Stretton
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"Stretton was a fearless searcher for the truth and he immediately took his commission on tour into the bushfire districts. His pages of testimony from bush people created one of the most important archives in Australian environmental history.."
Dr. Tom Griffiths, Historian, August 2001
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Judge Leonard Stretton’s
1939 Royal Commission was convened three weeks after the 1939 bushfires
and his findings still inform our fire management practices today. Graziers,
sawmillers, government officials and local people give details of their
experience with the 1939 fires to the Royal Commission. |
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Stretton’s findings were sweeping in their influence and the legislation and management practices developed from them set out the basis for the system of fire control we use today. Stretton remade the way we see landscape and fire.
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The 1939 Royal Commission delivered visionary recommendations directly resulting in the formation of the Country Fire Authority and the fire legislation we have today.
Go to summary of his recommendations.
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Judge Leonard Stretton
15/11/1972
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