<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1499d223-dfdf-43e2-8baa-8adb61a04b40/0357D3E7-73E4-484E-8AAD-CBC9E12D0ACD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory10.htm" href="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory10.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory10.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tr><TD width="100%" id="pgraphA" class="fparagraph"><FONT size="3" face="MS Sans Serif"> </FONT><P align="center"><DIV> <FONT size="3" face="MS Sans Serif"><B>Courting moves to make state pay for bushfire damages</B> </FONT></DIV> <FONT size="2" face="MS Sans Serif"> Written by <B>SIMONE KERWIN</B>.</FONT> </P><P>FARMERS from the North East are expected to lend their voices to planned Supreme Court action seeking compensation from the State Government for bushfire damage.</p> <P>Charles Slidders, partner at Slidders Lawyers, is mounting the class action on behalf of hundreds of farmers across the state who claim the government failed to undertake adequate fire management prior to fires that started in national parks.</p> <P>Mr Slidders said the action covered both the 2003 fires that swept through the North East, as well as the recent fires that affected the King Valley, Alpine Shire and Mansfield region.</p> <P>"<B>It covers any fire that started on State Government land and spread,</B>" Mr Slidders said.</p> <P>"<B>Everyone who suffered damage in those fires can be a party to our class action.</B>"</p> </TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0357D3E7-73E4-484E-8AAD-CBC9E12D0ACD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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