Publications & Resources

Initiative publications

• Symposium report: Advancing bushfire arson prevention in Australia (pdf, 3.2 MB), June 2010
• Forthcoming in early 2011: Special issue of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law focussing on arson offenders and legal issues
• Bushfire arson: A catastrophic crime (subscription required). By Janet Stanley. Journal - Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance, 33(1): 12-15, March 2010.

The Initiative in the news

• Coalition flags GPS watch on arsonists, Catherine Best, The Age, 18 October 2010
• Taking action on arson, Australian Security Magazine, May/June 2010
• Plans to reduce bushfire arson, ABC News, AM, 25 March 2010
• Conference examines how to cut bushfire arson, Samantha Donovan, ABC News, 25 March 2010
• Dousing the flames of bushfire arson, Monash Newsline, 24 March 2010
• Arson, ABC Radio National, The Law Report, 16 February, 2010
• Bushfire arson, ABC Radio National, Late Night Live, 8 February 2010
• The arson solution, Paula Zahra, RACV Royal Auto, page 78, February 2010 

Other bushfire arson resources and links

• Australian Institute of Criminology - Arson publications
• Dr Rebekah Doley's publications on arson
• National Work Plan to Reduce Bushfire Arson in Australia, Attorney General's Department
• "Final report on the National Forum to Reduce Deliberate Bushfires in Australia 25 March 2009": Attorney General's Department (2009)
• "Review of bushfire arson laws": NSW Attorney General's Department (2009)
• Sentencing 2010, Session 6: Sentencing in Arson (Bushfire) cases, Canberra, February 2010

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