AUSTRALIAN FIRE UPDATE: Angry survivors blame council ‘green’ policy. “During question time at a packed community meeting in Arthurs Creek on Melbourne’s northern fringe, Warwick Spooner — whose mother Marilyn and brother Damien perished along with their home in the Strathewen blaze — criticised the Nillumbik council for the limitations it placed on residents wanting the council’s help or permission to clean up around their properties in preparation for the bushfire season. ‘We’ve lost two people in my family because you dickheads won’t cut trees down,’ he said.”