Finally you are to be recognised by the NSW Government and as you are aware after many years of advocating on your behalf National Park members are to be included along with other emergency services workers within the NSW Sentencing Council Recommendations on Assaults on emergency services workers.

We are advised that the Premier is supporting, in full or in principle, all of the Report’s recommendations and has stated:

“Government will go further than the recommendations from the report by ensuring that firefighters from the NSW Rural Fire Service, Fire and Rescue NSW and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, and NSW State Emergency Service frontline workers will be covered by the new offences,” Mr Perrottet said.

“Our frontline emergency workers perform an essential public service in keeping our community safe and protecting lives, property and health,” the Premier said.

“They keep us safe and we will do whatever we can to keep them safe too.”

The new offences to be introduced later this year are in response to recommendations made by the NSW sentencing Council in its July 2001 report and you can read the report here.

PSA Is 2022 Wage Claim

Your union will always recognise the hard work and dedication that our members bring to the public sector and this again just highlights that you deserve a decent pay rise to stay afloat with the ever rising cost of living. For that reason, the PSA has launched a campaign to push for a decent pay rise to meet the cost of inflation and challenge the NSW Liberal-National Government’s unfair Public Sector Wages Policy cap of 2.5 per cent. To learn more about the campaign and to write to your MP and sign the petition, go to www.psa.asn.au.