Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

(—) (): When it comes to emergency resilience and response, everyone has a part to play. We should all have emergency plans. We can be better prepared. Last week was SES Week and all of us thank those volunteers for the hard work that they do. The volunteers who fight fires and help us during floods and those people who support them are invaluable. So it is disappointing to see that in Victoria the Baillieu government has decided to slash funding from the Country Fire Authority, with a $41 million cut to the CFA in one year. In Queensland nine Rural Fire Service offices will be closed. In New South Wales up to $70 million will be cut from fire services. All of these cuts are to front-line services, as communities across Australia prepare— (Time expired)