NSW’s public services union says any independent bushfire inquiry must examine what impact the state’s crippling budget cuts have had on frontline agencies ability to prepare for horror fire season. “We cautiously welcome this inquiry into the bushfires, and it’s apparently wide scope because there are many unanswered questions about how underfunding of key agencies […]
The NSW Coalition’s internal war over climate change is the real ideological battle preventing action on bushfires, not park rangers, says the Public Service Association. “Now the Deputy Premier has returned from holiday, he is back to picking fights with his Liberal colleagues over climate change and once again park rangers are his fodder,” said […]
Firefighting associations across Australia are calling for a federal royal commission into the deadly bushfire crisis currently gripping Australia. Association secretaries from NSW, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia have called for urgent action which crosses state lines and provides more resources across the board. “There has been a complete failure federally to coordinate activity […]
NSW, like much of the rest of the country, has been gripped by unprecedented bushfires. As a consequence of this people have lost their homes and property and in some cases, tragically, their lives. The PSA/CPSU NSW has many members employed by NSW Rural Fire Service, Fire and Rescue NSW, NSW State Emergency Service, NSW […]
It’s a similar line to that pushed by Nationals Leader and Deputy Premier John Barilaro in Parliament on Wednesday, as he lit the fuse on a brawl over staffing levels inside the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Barilaro implied that the NPWS had not done enough to reduce fuel loads in the bush, prompting a counter-attack […]