Senate debates

Monday, 10 February 2020

Questions without Notice

Australian Bushfires: National Aerial Firefighting Centre

3:19 pm

Photo of Murray WattMurray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

In December 2017 the National Aerial Firefighting Centre provided a business case to the federal government requesting a permanent increase in funding of $11 million to its annual budget. On 4 January this year the New South Wales Rural Fire Service commissioner, Shane Fitzsimmons, said:

We haven't seen a positive response to that business case.

Is failing to provide a positive response to the business case for two years an example of the government doing 'all it could'?

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