He's made the comments while announcing a 10 million dollar commitment toward the purchase of a high tech early detection fire system if elected into government on August 21.
Mr Abbott a volunteer fire fighter himself says even though some fires are extraordinarily difficult to fight there's no reason for denying Australians the latest technology and the best possible equipment to do the job.
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Campaigning in the fire devastated community of Kinglake West in Victoria the opposition leader has also committed the coalition to essentially embracing the findings of the royal commission into the Black Saturday bushfires.
A coalition government would also task the attorney general's department in consultation with Emergency Management Australia with the dissemination of statistical and mapping data to relevant local and state organisations.
