Does Brumby have the ticker to be tough and truthful ?

This week, Brumby could easily be confused about what to do to prevent more loss of life in bushfires- he could think shelters: he could think single fire service . lots
He could also simply tell the truth and prove that the children are not in charge .

If he can't do that , he could at least recognise what sound firefighters know - that people who choose to be anywhere near bush on TFD are kidding themselves and implement/ legislate 6.2 (in a form that is not nearly as woosy as it is suggested by the lawyesr driving the ship).
He could also tell that army of nit picking bureaubrats that have been blatantly belingeraant about every piece of branch managemnet for decades that ITS time for them to stopwoorying about a few trees near buildings and go find a decent job.

After all, the largely unwritten reality from the great disaster is that the above bluff agents have reinforced the " no removal, no touch " atmosphere that caused hundreds of people to leave disaster lying right next to them.