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The NSW premier says sacking Shane Fitzsimmons was “not about personalities” but the need to improve the state’s natural disaster response.

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Resilience NSW boss confirms his position terminated, agency defunct

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Shane Fitzsimmons, Resilience NSW, is pictured during the inqury into the response to major flooding across New South Wales at State Parliament on 15 June, 2022.

Shane Fitzsimmons backed by minister despite damning flood report

NSW Emergency Services Minister Steph Cooke has voiced her “full support” for embattled Resilience NSW boss Shane Fitzsimmons, even as her government plans to disband his agency.

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Resilience NSW boss Shane Fitzsimmons.

‘Disappointing:’ Resilience NSW boss Shane Fitzsimmons hits back at flood report

Resilience NSW boss Shane Fitzsimmons has hit back at the government’s flood inquiry describing its findings about the disaster agency as disappointing, without evidence and based on inaccurate or incorrect information.

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The SES could merge its operational forces with the NSW RFS under a bold new emergency management plan proposed in the flood inquiry.

RFS and SES face partial merger under flood inquiry recommendation

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NSW needs solutions, not scapegoats, for flood response mistakes

Leaks of a government report into this year’s floods response have focused on Resilience NSW and its boss Shane Fitzsimmons but the problems are much wider.

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