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Perrottet stands by decision to dump Resilience NSW boss
The NSW premier says sacking Shane Fitzsimmons was “not about personalities” but the need to improve the state’s natural disaster response.
- by Lucy Cormack
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NSW floods
Resilience NSW boss confirms his position terminated, agency defunct
Shane Fitzsimmons informed emotional staff that he had been dumped, and the disaster management body abolished, after criticism over its handling of the NSW floods.
- by Lucy Cormack
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.
- by Catherine Naylor
‘We need to do things differently’: Perrottet vows rethink on fighting natural disasters
An inquiry has recommended a major reset of emergency management in the face of increasing extreme weather events.
- by Lucy Cormack and Catherine Naylor
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NSW floods
NSW must spend big to end the suffering for residents of flood plains
The premier must not kick this can down the road past the state election next March. He has asked for federal help and it should be given.
- The Herald's View
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NSW floods
‘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.
- by Lucy Cormack
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Floods
RFS and SES face partial merger under flood inquiry recommendation
Former police commissioner Mick Fuller and Professor Mary O’Kane’s report to Premier Dominic Perrottet calls for the biggest overhaul of emergency services since they were established.
- by Laura Chung
Editorial
NSW floods
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.
- The Herald's View
‘They better have a bloody good reason’: Why Resilience NSW was doomed from the start
From the day Resilience NSW was established, it was co-ordinating recovery from bushfires, a pandemic and multiple flooding events. But former emergency services chiefs say it wasn’t given the time to establish itself to deal with the mammoth work ahead.
- by Laura Chung
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