CFS SA Victoria Bushfire Commemoration

On Sunday 22 February 2009, we attended the CFS SA Victoria Bushfire Commemoration at Hazelwood Park in Burnside, a suburb of Adelaide.

About 200 People gathered.

Three musicians from the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra played pleasant sorrowful tunes from stringed wood instruments.

The event was sponsored by the Country Fire Service Volunteers Association (CFSVA).

The CFSVA statement of purpose is "Representing the Interests of CFS Members".

Perhaps half of the audience and conductors were CFS members and many seemed to be CFS officers.

Mr. Ken Shutz AFSM, and a stand-in for CFS Chief Officer Mr. Euan Ferguson, gave some solemn statements of remembrance and significance.

The SA Minister for Emergency Services, Michael Wright, gave a very good presentation message from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

There was a minute's silence in honour of the many victims of the Victoria Bushfires of Black Saturday 7 February 2009 and Sunday 7 February 2009, just two weeks previous.

There was a laying of wreaths.

The closing message was

"Country Fire Service Volunteers Association thanks you for attending this service as a tribute to the victims of the Victorian Bushfires, and for the efforts of firefighters from around Australia and the world."

Most of the service was conducted by Daryl Rawlings of The Salvation Army.

It was like a Sunday morning religious service.

We were NEVER warned over the radio or other media that it was to be a religious service mostly appropriate for the mainstream majority of Invasion Society.

This religious service was held near the Adelaide Hills, which by The Grace of Nature, has escaped and prevented a major bushfire of this kind for the past 26 years.

We left early, and were glad to leave early, due to the one-sided religious monocultural content.

No mention was made of the Australian People (Kuarna People) of Adelaide, who once frequented this fringe of the Tandanya Plains at the base of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and who were sometimes poisoned to death by strychnine or arsenic laced flour gifted to them by invader settlers intent on grabbing land.