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Jimmy
Don’t get too strung up about negative comments. You’re not going to please 100% of the people 100% of the time so every now and then you’ll come up against guys on the internet you wont see eye to eye with (trolls or otherwise).
With the Bankstown fire, I was there yesterday and there’s still a couple of fire trucks parked outside the building so the investigations are still ongoing. I agree with you that it’s not good enough but until the laws are toughened up, this sort of thing will continue to happen. There are a multitude of units in this region (Bankstown, Yagoona, Punchbowl, Wiley Park, Lakemba, and yes I’m a local), that would fail fire test inspections today if anybody took the time to investigate, but with the penalities low or non existant for non compliance, is it any surprise that nobody cares. Until the government (that’s you Barry) gets tough on this and, for example brings in manslaughter charges or the like when something like this happens (or at least some serious financial penalities), then things will continue to go on this way forever.
