Our regulations under review

摘要

In recent years, the summer holidays in Australia have been disrupted by natural disasters with sobering regularity. This year, the bushfires burning in four states, extreme heat, monsoonal rains, cyclone Oswald and floods have been cause for concern. Our thoughts are with those who have suffered loss in this and previous years.I have personal experience of such events, having lost part of my home in the Sydney bushfires of January 1994. After 19 years, my family still remembers the terror and fear of that afternoon. Australians are at their best after such disasters, we are overwhelmingly generous and supportive to friends and strangers alike.