By Scott Spencer

On the wake of the global financial crisis, 2009 will now also be known as the year that we had the worst bushfires in history. Bigger than Ash Wednesday, more horrific than Black Friday. The death toll from the fires that ravaged Victoria is climbing higher and higher. Entire towns gone. Friends and loved ones missing, people being left with nothing. You can’t help but to have seen it on the news over the weekend.

I used to camp around these areas as a child and it’s not nice to see places you had such fond memories of, gone.  We had a long look at ourselves over the weekend and realised just how lucky those of us not directly affected by the tragedy really are and decided that somehow, we have to help.
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