Mr JOYCE (New England) (13:37): Deputy Speaker Hogan, I'd like to concur with your remarks regarding the bushfires and the wonderful efforts the RFS are currently making in the northern part of our state. We've seen horrific fires in both the seat of Page and the seat of New England. My thoughts go out to Neville Smith, who is a firefighter who's currently in hospital after receiving severe burns to his body. I heard horrific stories about the afflictions those burns have caused. Might I say that in a time of severe drought, it absolutely amazed me to see where the fires burned. The fires raced across parched ground where you thought a fire wouldn't have had a chance. At times like this we have to look after the people who are most afflicted. We have not only to rally to their support but also to learn from the experience and prepare ourselves for the next bushfires. I concur with the remarks of Mayor Peter Petty of Tenterfield Shire, who said we need more watering points. In the state forests and the national parks and on farm land, we need watering points and we need support for their construction. During these bushfires water was taken from farm dams to fight fires. In those farm dams is very little water; it's needed for stock. In the national parks, in some instances, they've decommissioned the dams by filling them in. Therefore, you have to go somewhere else to find the water, at times from town storages.