A rally will be held in Margaret River at the weekend to call on the state government to fund rapid bushfire suppression equipment and scale back “failing” prescribed burns in the South West.

Globally there has been a shift towards adopting new early detection and rapid suppression equipment to quickly identify and extinguish bushfires.

The technology, including smoke detection cameras, satellite monitoring, AI software and drones to give a bird’s-eye view to spot developing fires, is already operational in Canada and California.

It is being rolled out in European countries and along the east coast of Australia.

WA Forest Alliance senior campaigner Jason Fowler said the WA government and Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions were lagging and reliant on “outdated and dangerous” policy.

“The prescribed burning program is no longer effective at protecting South West communities in a drying and warming climate,” he said.

“Only half of prescribed burns close to communities have been completed last year because they are too risky.

“Forests are also suffering with an increasing number of high-intensity burns causing severe damage.”

Likely a pipe dream at this stage. But having just visited south bank in Brisbane it would be awesome to create something similar here.

What I liked about south bank: -big shady trees to sit under Lots of nice places to hang out that don't require you to be a customer open access pool, water playground. Lots of places to eat

If Perth tried to do it, we would need to bring in the team who did south bank, and keep away the clowns who made the shadeless concrete wind tunnels like yagan square and Elizabeth quay.

Laborel party letting foreign companies dictate policy.

I'm sure if we keep voting for the Libor and Laberal parties they will eventually fix it right?

Looks like we are finally working towards a fuel efficiency standard.

Will be interesting to see what the final details are, especially the year at which manufacturers have to hit zero emissions, and if it's going to be a linear change to get there or otherwise.

No doubt legacy parts of the industry will be busy lobbying for their own interests instead of the planet's.