Everyone remembers the Black Saturday bushfires that happened in February last year, leaving thousands homeless and killing 173 people here in Melbourne. anyway, it has recently been discovered that the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police at that time and the current head of the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority that among numerous other things, five minutes after she was told that people would die, she went out to dinner. During a critical time on Black Saturday where lives were in the balance, she didn't have any contact with the police and had no way to see what was going on with the fires, even though it was her responsibility to coordinate the polive. My question is, do you think she was in the wrong, and do you think leaving your post is ever a good idea?
I think that knowing that she could have been the difference in saving peoples' lives, Nixon should have remained at the office and helped out with the fires as much as she could. Being the Chief Commissioner at the time, it was her job and her obligation to help people, but instead she decided to only look after herself. I think that if there is something important happening, you should never abandon your post. If Nixon had just stayed at her post, the Black Saturday fires might not have claimed as many lives.
I think that knowing that she could have been the difference in saving peoples' lives, Nixon should have remained at the office and helped out with the fires as much as she could. Being the Chief Commissioner at the time, it was her job and her obligation to help people, but instead she decided to only look after herself. I think that if there is something important happening, you should never abandon your post. If Nixon had just stayed at her post, the Black Saturday fires might not have claimed as many lives.