The operator of a defunct Victorian power station must fork out more than $1.5 million after a bushfire spread to its coal mine and burned for 45 days.
"It was not an adequate response to risk to wait until a bushfire was bearing down on the mine to increase staff numbers or to rely on goodwill of staff who attended voluntarily," Justice Andrew Keogh found. "This was not because of any conscious disregard by , which was clearly attentive to the risk of coal fire at the mine," said.
Is that all? 😠
all of this under the remit of Mike Hunt aka GregHuntMP I wonder what the outcome will be of his covid19 app
Only $1.5 million?
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