Too easy to blame the Bureaucrat

Re Excessive focus on Russell Rees - Bushfire enquiry Victoria

When the responsibility for real process failures OFTEN goes Much Higher
For example
--those who in Authority presume to know
--those who don't act on previous bushfire reviews
- those who in their 2 nd or 3rd term aren't actively working to get advice from those they haven't cloned . ( A list could be prepared )
--those who don't train for the job ( a particular beef of EA)
--those who don't think training would help ( which is the bigger worry?above?)
--those who allow departments to not train or retain trained staff
--those who allow the untrained to take control
You could go on Please ADD !

Russell Rees is getting a lot of bad press lately .
RC and our objectives are not to end in a blame game - the risk is that the dry and dusty business of poor process is not heard and the big heads ( some of the TW above) won't roll - thats all it may be.
Too easy to blame the Bureaucrat when the responsibility for real process failures OFTEN goes Much Higher ........and Lower ( not covered HERE)

Pot calling the kettle black

The evidence: Pretending fanaticism is not a widespread disease.

Where Brisbane institute discuss an important issue
The Lure of Simplicity, the Need for Complexity: Fundamentalism, independent media & politics


let me suggest for the discussion
--The powerbrokers may need to take heed - Heal thyself? the powerbrokers worldview means they are growing and surviving on fanaticism themselves
--- for example
1. common forms of fundamentalism in the media and political agendas are on the main menu of technological quick fix
2. that the unsustainable fanaticism evident all around us, is an expression of the increasingly ineffective unworkable and reactionary politics of the left
3 The audience for the game rather than the players is where the money goes and the audience ( rather than real scientists) worshipping technology-- not science( huxley, ellul, c.koch etc) Tokenism
3 If Australia is not to be increasingly left behind technologically, its politicians need to support the real thing later( science), rather than the imitation former .( there is a proper process and a proper cost to be paid)
4. Followers rather than leaders . The reality of reactionaries is shown by the lack of prvenetion focus. eg The choice to support disease prevention at its best : that the topics subject concerns ( and resulting powerwar between only two of the many players )amongst the powerful, ignores the key future role for balance of individual minds and genuine people power Battlefield/castle games that are increasingly "off air" except for bloggers see http://users.gsat.net.au/tuf

Critical mass

When the balance is all wrong, the checks are not in the right place. There is no cheap way to get checks in the system.