The report and recommendations into the Black Summer coronial inquiry were released on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 but some impacted residents weren’t happy with the process. Video via AAP.
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00:00 The main takeaway was that it's such a mammoth task that was taken on.
00:06 It's impossible to address the key issues.
00:09 And I think that's...
00:11 And the Corridor's done a remarkable job,
00:13 but again, we emphasise that we don't believe it's a mechanism to do this.
00:18 We believe that there needs to be an independent body to do it.
00:23 In particular, the community voice, we feel, has not been heard.
00:28 We had 17 affidavits by residents that were submitted.
00:33 None of those were called to give oral evidence.
00:36 We had three expert reports commissioned.
00:39 None of those experts were called to give oral evidence.
00:43 We're very disappointed as well that some of the critical RFS decision makers
00:50 were not called to give oral evidence at the hearing.
00:53 What is incredibly frustrating is the government don't want to hear
00:57 these lessons, and the RFS doesn't want to hear what happened.
01:03 And that is the most...
01:07 The thing that tests our resilience the most.