Gary Morgan has spent more than 20 years in senior land and fire management roles. As Victoria’s Chief Fire Officer for public lands, for nine years, he was responsible for the management and deployment of fire suppression personnel. Since becoming CEO of the Bushfire CRC in mid-2007, Gary has worked to foster strong relationships between researchers and the industry.
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‘Social benefit’ was the buzz phrase out of the 2008 review of the national Cooperative Research Centres program. Finally, Public Good CRCs were acknowledged for their long struggle for attention and ongoing support in a funding program renowned for supporting...
The Governing Board of the Bushfire CRC is currently considering a vision to build upon the successful research program of the last decade.
As the new Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC lays its foundations over the coming year, the Bushfire CRC will focus on completing...
Towards the end of a busy fire season, the Prime Ministerial $47 million announcement that has secured bushfire research funding for a further eight years was a welcome relief.
This funding has long been sought by the fire and land management sector and researchers. We...
The New Year has only just begun and we already have hit full pace at the Bushfire CRC. It has been an active time for fires right across the country. As the northern and central Australia fires settled down after many months of activity, the southern part of the continent...
As 2012 ends, most of our research projects are producing solid outputs in the final stages of their three year funding. By July next year, Australian Government funding for national fire research will stop, but good financial management has left us with a budget to last well...
New thinking and new relationships – that’s the rationale driving the Bushfire CRC’s Public Benefit Conversation Series, the first of which took place last week in Melbourne. By bringing together a diverse range of people to talk about the future and the...
The breadth of topics at our three-day annual conference in Perth at the end of last month was quite astounding, even more so considering none were repeats of last year’s conference, and in Melbourne next year, a whole new set of issues will be presented.
Despite...
Recently I have attended a number of important meetings in Europe, highlighting the important role the Bushfire CRC plays not just in Australia, but internationally.
The Bushfire CRC and AFAC research partnership with the Bouches-du-Rhône Fire Brigade in...
The Bushfire CRC is “sound and robust”, with supportive and engaged stakeholders, a high quality research program, a cohort of leading international researchers and a clear vision for its future – that is the view in the final report from the Independent...
The five-member Review...
Last month I noted how Bushfire CRC research was making inroads into the Small to Medium Enterprise sector through various publications and fire industry conferences. And our fire and land management agency partners are regularly outspoken in their support for Bushfire CRC...
Our Federal Government funders show a great interest in how we interact with what they refer to as the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) sector. While we regularly demonstrate strong links to our “bigger” partners – the fire and land management agencies,...
It has now been three years since the horrific fires of 7 February in Victoria and still they are very much a part of our industry conversation. There have been large fires before and after Black Saturday but these fires have reshaped the way we all go about our daily...
A year ago I wrote about how the new research program was starting up with great promise. A year on and we find ourselves planning for the final outputs of the three year program. As distinct from the first years of the Bushfire CRC, in this research program we have all had...
The launch of the book Burning Issues later this month is a timely reminder of the complex relationship we as a society have with fire.
The use of controlled fire as part the management of forests, woodlands and grasslands has been a matter of ongoing...
