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Premier Dominic Perrottet and Minister for Emergency Services and Resilience Steph Cooke.

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.

  • Lucy Cormack

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Outgoing Resilience NSW boss Shane Fitzsimmons, who has been terminated from the NSW public service.

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.

  • Lucy Cormack
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.

  • Catherine Naylor
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet announcing the government’s response to the inquiry on Wednesday.

‘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.

  • Lucy Cormack and Catherine Naylor
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.

  • Lucy Cormack
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

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.

  • Laura Chung
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NSW Resilience boss wrote to staff on Thursday and expressed disappointment over some comments made in the report, but urgent staff to keep going.

‘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.

  • Laura Chung
Resilience NSW boss Shane Fitzsimmons at budget estimates in April.

Resilience NSW boss to be dumped, agency scaled down, under key recommendation of flood inquiry report

The inquiry examined the state’s preparedness to deal with major flooding events, while considering the gaps in the emergency response that left inundated residents in the state’s north to be rescued by private boats.

  • Lucy Cormack and Alexandra Smith
Low-lying parts of Singleton are inundated by floodwaters along the Hunter River on Thursday.

Residents return for flood clean-up as leaders look towards mitigation, prevention

Resilience NSW boss Shane Fitzsimmons said the floods had allowed emergency leaders to better understand mitigation and prevention options, which will help them plan for the next one. 

  • Sarah Keoghan
Shane Fitzsimmons gives evidence at NSW Parliament on Wednesday.

‘Who dropped the ball?’: Emergency service chiefs defend flood response

Resilience NSW boss Shane Fitzsimmons has rejected assertions the government “dropped the ball” in dealing with floods in the state’s north.

  • Lucy Cormack

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