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View from devastated Kinglake to Melbourne. Via: The Australian. Photo by David Geraghty

Should stimulus package funds be used to rebuild parts of Victoria?

In two days, the Australian public have donated $30,000,000 dollars to the Bushfire Relief Fund, yet one of the richest media tycoon's in the world allows his trophy paper, The Australian, to pose such a stupid question.

Who gives a fuck where the money comes from? Just make sure it's put to the best of use in the recovery from, what is now, one of the worlds worst bushfire disasters.

This is a totally political question, because Murdoch's underlings will do anything to support the conservatives who have screamed that their reluctance to pass the economic stimulus bill is now in some small way linked to the bushfires.

The stupid question..

The answer such a stupid question deserves.

There is a time and place to play political games, this is not the time, or the place.

Meanwhile... it gets worse by the hour

Fatal crash while fleeing the fires. via: The Australian

ABC News Fire Photos ... The Age Fire Photos

via: Google

I've lived, learned, played and worked in many of these areas.
To think some of these fires were deliberately lit is beyond comprehension.

The death toll from the Victorian bushfires now stands at 49, with 640 houses destroyed

ABC News

The deaths, injuries and damage numbers will climb higher over the next 24 hours.
Update: The death toll is now expected to approach 230+

Australian Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal 2009

The 2009 Victorian Bushfire Fund to assist individuals and communities affected by devastating bushfires in Victoria has been launched by the Premier John Brumby in partnership with Red Cross and the Federal Government.