Andrew Constance has warned his own government has not done enough to protect NSW from another devastating firestorm.
“The community will not be interested in arguments between green and brown on this, they just want survival,” Mr Constance told The Daily Telegraph in an interview.
NSW Parliamentary Commitee recommends the establishment of a Rural Fire Service Volunteers Benevolent Fund, administered cooperatively by the NSW Rural Fire Service, the Volunteer Fire Fighters Association and the Rural Fire Service Association.
This is one of a number of interesting stories in this week’s News Roundup.
The Daily Telegraph reported that firefighters in one of the Australia’s most bushfire-prone areas have revealed how they were left facing seven major bushfire emergencies with broken equipment, barely enough food and without their main tanker.