Latest 19812 ,Turia Pitt and Kate Sanderson update:Damning findings have been made against organisers of the 2011 Kimberley Ultramarathon.

Up date from 60 Minutes Australia 19 8 2012
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Damning findings have been made against organisers of the 2011 Kimberley Ultramarathon which left runners suffering horrific burns after a bushfire swept through the race route. Two runners, Kate Sanderson and Turia Pitt, suffered burns to more than 60 percent.

Turia Pitt and Kate Sanderson so so brave, please help with whatever you can.

Sydney Burns Foundation growing Synthetic Skin

Damning findings against fire race organisers

9 News

Thu Aug 16 2012

Damning findings have been made against organisers of the 2011 Kimberley Ultramarathon which left runners suffering horrific burns after a bushfire swept through the race route.

Two runners, Kate Sanderson and Turia Pitt, suffered burns to more than 60 per cent of their bodies after they were trapped in a gorge by a bushfire as they were running in the 100km race in Western Australia's northernmost region in September.

Michael Hull and Martin Van Der Merwe also received serious burns and required skin grafts.

A parliamentary committee report, released on Thursday, found Hong Kong-based organisers Racing the Planet did not take reasonable steps to ensure the safety of event participants.

Committee chairman Mike Nahan, the member for Riverton, said the company's biggest mistake was not liaising with the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of WA (FESA) when it planned the event.

"The level of communication and consultation with relevant agencies and individuals regarding the event's risk management plan was generally inadequate, both in terms of its timeliness and its approach," Dr Nahan told parliament.

"Specifically, Racing the Planet failed to communicate and consult adequately with the Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley - the shire in which the race was held - the WA police force, the Fire and Emergency Services (FESA) and St John's Ambulance service."

Dr Nahan said FESA's Kununurra office would have provided advice that could have led to the route being changed or cancelled.

Ms Sanderson's brother Ian said his demands for an inquiry were fobbed off by WA Health Minister Kim Hames until opposition justice spokeswoman Michelle Roberts intervened and made it happen.

"He was telling me that there were no grounds and no means by which the government could conduct an inquiry," Mr Sanderson told reporters.

"This report proves him utterly wrong."

Dr Hames rejected the claim, but said he "absolutely" believed Racing the Planet should offer financial compensation to the victims, saving them from pursuing it in court.

"They should have known the risks ... if there is anyone to blame in all this it is quite clearly Racing the Planet," he said.

While Premier Colin Barnett earlier this year ruled out state government ex-gratia payments to the victims, Dr Hames said it would be considered.

"There is a case being made by the committee that while it is an international company based in Hong Kong, that it would be very difficult for those who were severely injured to extract money from that company, that the government should consider providing financial support by way of ex-gratia payment," he said.

The WA government had three months to respond to the report and it was up to Attorney-General Michael Mischin if he wanted to act before that deadline, Dr Hames said.

He said one of the most important recommendations of the report was that event organisers be insured in Australia - advice he intended the government to follow.

"Quite clearly, the recommendation of the committee is that the government should require any organisation running an event in Australia to have insurance that is claimable in Australia and sue-able in Australia."

Mr Sanderson said it was "entirely possible" the organisers would make voluntary payments to victims "based on common sense and decency".

Earlier on Thursday, solicitor Greg Walsh, who is acting for Ms Pitt and four others, said a writ against Racing the Planet would be filed in coming days.

"Conservatively, the case would be worth something in excess of $10 million," Mr Walsh told ABC radio.

Ms Pitt spent more than $3 million to have her face, hands and body reconstructed.

The Bolt Report August 19 2012

The Islamic Colonization of Australia marches on with the full facilitation of  Australia's Union GetUp funded Labor Green Loon Independent Minority Socialist "Co Party" Government.

".........when you look at the figures that have been given for Malaysia their talking about 100,000 people there now as against 20,000 four years ago..........."

Philip Ruddock The  Bolt  Report Pt.1 August 19 2012

and Piracy is just fine too as Labor's celebrity go to man, former Labor Senator Graham Richardson says
"Whatever it takes"

Interesting to see Labor's Warren Mundine calling for his Union / GetUp funded  Labor Party, to divorce itself from it's "Co Party" the Greens.

I wonder does he still support the works and ideology of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Mundine and others are very impressed with Hugo Chavez, so much so they wrote the following letter to him:

Dear President Chávez, 

We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit our country. We have watched developments in Venezuela with great interest. We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. We have also noted with keen attention the moves that your government has begun to make to create a society based on popular participation in all spheres of society—from the workplace up to the national government.

Although we are on the opposite side of the globe we feel that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together. Every country has its own traditions and culture and has to find its own solutions, but what Venezuela has been able to achieve in so little time will be a source of inspiration and ideas for many in Australia.

In this light we believe that a visit to our country by yourself would not only help to improve the awareness of the Australian people of developments in Venezuela, but also be an unparalleled opportunity to strengthen the ties of friendship and solidarity between our two peoples. 

Warren Mundine - National President of the ALP in 2006 and many many others

 Full list of signatories at  Australian Labor Party’s best friend turns out the lights in Venezuela “Dear President Chávez, We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit our country…………”

Read what gets that shiver down their spines,or is it up their leg ? either way it's easy to understand why Australia's Union GetUp funded Socialist Party starts salivating at the very mention of Hugo's name with stunts like this 

           

Australian Labor Party's Shameful Values and objectives from their own mouths

From their own mouths

"But Communism is the god of discontent, and needs no blessing. All it needs is a heart willing to hate, willing to call envy “justice."Equality then means the violent destruction of all social and cultural distinctions. Freedom means absolute dictatorship over the people." 

: David Yeagley 

Madame Gillard "I was young and naive" but she says she didn't get the money and Unions and Comrades in your kids Classroom - Why Communism Loves Children.

From Sydney's Occupied Territories:10,000 Muslim Insurgents mass to worship Paedophile Pirate Slave Trader and Prophet "Tonight is the Laylat al-Qadr,''

Muslims gather at Lakemba Mosque for a major religious celebration known as 'the night of power' called Laylat al-Qadr

Leigh van den Broeke 
The Daily Telegraph
August 15, 2012 5:52AM

THOUSANDS of Muslims gathered in Lakemba Mosque overnight for a major religious celebration known as "the night of power''.

More than 10,000 Muslim worshippers amassed at Lakemba Mosque on Wangee Rd for a night they consider to be more holy than any other, Laylat al-Qadr - The night of power.

"Tonight is the Laylat al-Qadr,'' Adnan Alameddine, 19, from Greenacre said. "It's a night where all Muslims celebrate the day that Allah sent down the Quran to Prophet Mohammed.''

The huge numbers were anticipated by police who closed the street allowing cars to park wherever they could so worshippers could get inside the Mosque and converse on the roadway afterwards.

During this celebration one night of prayer is said to equate for 1,000 months of proper worship.

"We're just all here gathered today to celebrate it by praying, reading Quran and listening to all the Sheiks,'' Mr Alameddine said. "It's a good night.''
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"It started as soon as we broke our fast around 5.30pm and it goes to around 5am when we have our last feed before we have to fast again,'' he said. "And then we pray and that's the end of Laylat al-Qadr.''

But last night was a mere precursor for Lakemba Mosque with about 40,000 Muslims expected to attend over the weekend for, Eid ul-Fitr, the end of Ramadan.

"Religion is about peace, getting along with each other, obeying all religions and it's a real family,'' Mr Alameddine said. "Everyone is altogether.''