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 from the Public Service Association which said the organisation had been gutted of its most experienced fire management personnel in a restructuring ordered by the Coalition government two years ago.

Environment Minister Matt Kean entered the ring too, with a barb seemingly aimed at his cabinet colleague: “I’m not going to have the NPWS being made scapegoats in this bushfire season.”

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