What a disaster!

Not surprisingly the guidelines have attracted a good deal of criticism and even derision. Christine Nixon, Victoria's former Chief Commissioner of Police who was involved in the recovery after the 2009 Black Saturday fires in which 173 people lost their lives has been a prominent critic.

Asked if she had been approached with claims that people had been discriminated against during or after an emergency because of their sexuality she said, It's never been an issue while Federal Justice Minister Michael Keenan has distanced himself from the guidelines saying that the government had nothing but respect and gratitude for the work of charities, community organisations and volunteers.Mind you, he didn't actually say that these guidelines are a lot of confected rubbish.

And while we are on the subject of providing a truly inclusive disaster emergency response plan, I hope that it will soon be mandatory for all rescue workers and volunteers to provide halal tucker for Muslim victims of natural disasters. Woe betide any Muslim woman who allows herself to be plucked from a raging torrent or from a threatening bushfire by some infidel rescuer especially if that infidel rescuer happens to see more of her than her eyes.

Oh, the shame and dishonour of that!

Once emergency services protocols in Victoria have been sanitised to the satisfactor of LGBTI activists then isn't the next logical step a similar process to ensure that these protocols reflect cultural and ethnic sensitivities?

Victorians are so much closer to being fully ready to cope with the bushfire season. Now, what about more emergency services staff, better equipment and all of those other boring things?