Lucy Tiley at the RMIT is conducting research on fire fighter stress following the Black Summer fires. Can you please help her by completing the survey.
Just download the pdf file at the bottom of this post and follow the instructions.
We’ll be interested in publishing the survey results when Lucy has completed her research.
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