[LINK] Senator Coonan on 7:30 Report

[Roger Clarke]

At 10:28 -0400 19/6/07, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>Most remote/rural communities wouldn't have the footprint of 
>Canberra - given the design of Canberra, I would guess that 
>additional transmitters to provide coverage would be economically 
>justified.

Yes.  It's the lucky city in the lucky country.


>It would be interesting to see what is provided in the bushfire 
>ravaged areas - where the cable melted.

New telephone poles, this time made of concrete.


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The fire along our part of the ridge was so strong that they didn't 
have to cart away very much of the remnants of some of the old wooden 
poles.  (And I doubt if they could even find the pools of plastic and 
metal that were the newly-installed TransACT black boxes).

The fallen timber on the ridge - including several very picturesque 
ex-trees that my wife and daughter had photographed in the past - was 
completely gone, to the point of not being able to see where it had 
been.

I was just loking yesterday at a dozen trees directly above us that 
are *still* in recovery-mode, after 4-1/2 years.  A few are still 
trying to shoot from the branches, but most have given up and are 
copsing from the roots.

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