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About the Stretton Group
The Stretton Group is an apolitical, not-for-profit group established in December 2003 following the disastrous south east Australian bushfire crisis in 2002/3. The Stretton Group comprises a disparate association of volunteers who support the protection of the natural environment through greater transparency of the public sector processes involved. Named after the respected Royal Commissioner into 1939 Victorian Bushfires, Justice Leonard Stretton, the group proposes that government managed national parks and forests should be provided with a balance sheet value which encapsulates the environmental, cultural and economic value of these assets.
The Stretton Group is committed to ensuring that our intergenerational responsibility is met by Governments committing appropriate funding to the maintenance of this public property – commensurate with its asset value. The Group advocates the preparation and publication of performance indicators which enable the public to assess the quality of the management being provided to the natural environment. This would bring publicly owned wilderness into line with reporting required for hospitals, schools and other public institutions. The Stretton Group is committed to ensuring that the public debate about conservation is conducted on a balanced and informed basis – which may often disturb political myths or common preconceptions about the present quality of environmental preservation.
Members of the Stretton Group:
Simon Paton - simon@bogong-ski-centre.com.au is a 5th generation farmer and cattle breeder from Callaghans Creek, Mitta Mitta and owns and operates the Bogong Ski-Hire centre at Mt Beauty. Simon has been a major spokesman for NE Victorian communities affected by the bushfires and is campaigner for community involvement conservation and forest management. (Tel: 03 5754 4555)
Peter Attiwill - attiwill@unimelb.edu.au, PhD, BScFor, AssocDipFor, is Principal Fellow in Botany, and Senior Fellow, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne. He has researched in eucalypt ecology over 40 years, with a concentration on soils and nutrient cycles, and on bushfires and ecosystem recovery. He has published extensively in the international journals, and his latest book is Ecology: An Australian Perspective (co-editor BA Wilson, Oxford University Press 2003). (Tel: 03 9870 3034)
Athol Hodgson - atholjoy@optusnet.com.au, BScFor, AssocDipFor, has more than 50 years experience in fire management and forest fire research in Australia, USA, Canada, France and Spain. He was formerly Commissioner for Forests, and then Chief Fire Officer, Department of Conservation. He was a Member of the Board of the Country Fire Authority and a Member of the State Disaster Committee and is a graduate from the National Advanced Fire Behaviour School, Marana, Arizona. (Tel: 03 9580 4964)
Bill Middleton, OAM, DipFor, has some 50 years experience in management of forests, of nurseries and of vegetation habitat in rural areas and he is an Honorary Life Member of Birds Australia. He was Supervisor of the innovative Potter Farmland Plan for ecologically-sustainable agriculture, and a Board Associate for the Trust for Nature. (Tel: 03 5254 2332)
David Packham - holleyhill@netspace.net.au, OAM, MAppSci, worked for 40 years in bushfire research with CSIRO, Monash University and the Australian Emergency Management Institute. He was responsible for fire-weather services in the Bureau of Meteorology. His extensive research concentrated on the physics of bushfires, and he applied this research to practical issues including the development of aerial prescribed burning, non-evacuation of properties, modelling of fire behaviour, and forensics.
Stewart McArthur - Stewart.McArthur@meningoort.com, MA Cantab, was the Federal Member for Corangamite 1984 – 2007, a Camperdown farmer and company director. He was an active member of the all-party House of Representatives Select committee Inquiry into the 2003 Australian Bushfires whose report A Nation Charred: Inquiry into the Recent Australian Bushfires was tabled on Wednesday 5 November 2003.
Specialities: Bushfires, Land Management, Environmental Management
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