Hundreds of Queensland firefighters, emergency personnel and wildlife carers will be honoured at an event in Brisbane next month. On Thursday, Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner announced a ticker tape parade that will honour up to 700 of the state’s local heroes. The event will run through Brisbane's city centre and end at King George Square.
Mr Smith said the announcement was a “good move” by Brisbane’s Lord Mayor. “So how about Clover Moore in Sydney, Sally Capp in Melbourne, even Sandy Verschoor in Adelaide clear the streets, set a date…and we'll all join the parade party,” he said. Mr Smith said the opportunity should be taken, “on behalf of all Australians,” to “thank our volunteer firefighters… and give these crews the applause they so justly deserve”.
Oh my, that is worthy of some sort of Murdochracy award, I laughed out loud thank you.
And if Morrison + Gladys could give them basic equipment so they don't have to crowdfund would be good.
Why do we need This bloke to tell us the Obvious? Desperate for a Headline?
macsween_prue Prue whoring for a new job on Sky?
macsween_prue macsween_prue ScottyFomMarketing having badly lost the AngusTaylorMP saga the NewsCorpCoalition are now targeting Clover Moore over the Fires .. never mind the 100 million sport grants corruption eh Prue
The Australia population calls on chrissmithonair to call on all his fellow toileteers on to apologise publicly to all the Australian fire fighters who have been forced to battle fires that are a by product of the climate change you all deny. Shame on you all.
Good idea, start a new culture war, again. Need an enemy to rally against. Ask Angus Taylor for a few tips, just double check his work before publishing :)
I call on 'Sky News host Chris Smith' to STOP LYING ABOUT THE CLIMATE CRISIS then you might have the moral authority to speak on the bushfirecrisis auspol
Maybe start by getting ScottMorrisonMP to apologise to them and the nation for not doing a better job, for cutting their funding, cutting the funding of a body that was help into minimise the impacts, for disrespecting us by lying. I’m sure Clover & the other mayors would agree.
God bless Australia 🇦🇺
Can someone explain to Chris that the fires aren’t out yet. The firefighters are a bit busy right now.
Let them put the Fire out first Oh that's right the Australian GOVERNMENT sold all our Water to China 96 million litres a year Fuck the Pillars of the Community Your a bunch of Crooks
Have they punished/caught the COWARDS who set many of the fires?
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