Craig Thomson (Dobell, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Just a few days ago, on the Central Coast, we experienced an early onset of the fire season. Once again we saw properties under threat from large bushfires. Yet the official warnings for dangerous fire conditions and extreme weather come under the Hunter, a separate region from ours. Despite improvements in town forecasts, regional Central Coast forecasts and warnings do not exist. When will the Bureau of Meteorology treat the Central Coast as a region in its own right with its own weather forecasts, warnings and observations?

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