'I'm not relying on evidence': Jim Molan's Q&A admission
Senator Molan began to deflect with his answer before saying there was little to do for individual cases at a Federal level.
"What is the strategy? If I could put it very, very simply, the strategy, the strategy was first to support the firefighters. That was the most immediate strategy." "It wasn't until December 12 that the Federal Government announced a funding boost for aerial firefighting services. Why wasn't that done before?" Macdonald pressed on."A lot of people say it's an unprecedented fire, that doesn't mean it wasn't planned for. It was planned for at an incredible detail," he said, before suggesting the fires were not the Federal Government's responsibility.
"It's very, very difficult for the Federal Government to be prepared for bushfires when we're not fighting bushfires.
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