The Auditor-General for New South Wales, Margaret Crawford, released a report today examining how effectively NSW emergency response agencies address public inquiry recommendations.
The audit found that agencies’ governance arrangements to address public inquiry recommendations have important and consistent gaps.
The Report we have all been waiting for has at last been released … all 1,000 pages of it. Read our initial commentatry and download the report here …
The VFFA is a signatory to The Howitt Society’s Letter to the Prime Minister urging Scott Morrison to reinstate the Royal Commission enquiry into land and vegetation management.
Mike Gorman has completed his incredible work of reviewing and categorising all the submissions to the NSW Enquiry! Read his introduction and download your copy here.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) released their interim report on the C130 crash last summer. Wildfire Today publish a very good overview.
The Royal Commissions Interim Observations provide a guide to those areas that the Commission is working on. Read all our comnments in the fully story here.
The focus this week is the Bushfire Enquiry and the fact that all the recommendations have been accepted. A brilliant job by Mary O’Kane and Dave Owen.
The release of the NSW Government Bushfire Enquiry is nothing but good news for the volunteer movement in this state. Download and read the report here ..
All of Mike Gorman’s research into the Royal Commission submissions has now been consolidated into a single paper. Compelling reading!
Mike Gorman from the very effective team in Kangaroo Valley has compiled this index of all the submissions to the Royal Commission that relate to the firefighting response in NSW.