A persistent Black Saturday survivor, Don Brown has launched a Victorian Legislative Council e-petition for tabling in State Parliament regarding bushfire compensation.
Brown requested the Coroner ‘release of all documents regarding the cause of the Kilmore East-Kinglake and Murrindindi 2009 Black Saturday bushfires’.
The E-Petition draws to the attention of the Legislative Council the Victorian Coroner’s findings in relation to the origin and cause of the Murrindindi and Kilmore East-Kinglake Black Saturday bushfires, which found SP AusNet responsible, with electricity assets failing through operator negligence.
The Coroner’s findings (Kinglake Ranges News has obtained copies) were made in September 2015 (Murrindindi) and February 2016 (Kilmore East-Kinglake), post-settlement of the class action by SP AusNet on 23 December 2014.
As a result bushfire survivors were denied access to crucial information in pursuing their class action claim(s).
The Murrindindi Class Action allocated $34 million for injury-dependency personal claimants.
Petitioners request that the Legislative Council call on the Government to take the necessary action to require SP AusNet (now AusNet Services) to make additional compensation payments to survivors of the Murrindindi and Kilmore East-Kinglake Black Saturday bushfires for the substantial physical, material and emotional losses they have suffered and continue to suffer.
The closing date for signing the E-Petition is 17 June 2019.
The E-Petition (No. 109) can be viewed and signed at the following link: https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/petitions/electronic-petitions/view-e-petitions/details/12/120
Kinglake Ranges News has obtained a copy of the previously unpublished Coroner’s “Summary of the circumstances surrounding the point of origin of the Murrindindi Fire on 7 February 2009,” and “Summary of the circumstances surrounding the point of origin of the Kilmore East Fire on 7 February 2009.”
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