On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 05:37:41 GMT, "PhilD" wrote:

We've always wondered why some of the same rules are not applied down south as well.

Probably some result of risk assessment. One in ten, hundred,
thousand year chance of something happening. At what point do you say
'take the risk'? Apparently something of the sort happened here in
Canberra some thirty years ago. There was a proposal to build a new
suburb to be called Duffy on what was then the edge of the city and
against a pine forest. The risk of fire coming down through the
forest was, apparently, foreseen but considered such a low risk that
it was accepted.

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