Firies to receive financial support

[icyfroth]

Rural Fire Service Volunteers in NSW will receive financial support from the Morrison Government. The payments will provide for lost income of up to $300 per day up to a total of up to $6,000 per person.

https://www.centralwesterndaily.com.au/story/6559941/federal-government-agrees-to-nsw-volunteer-firi...

rime Minister Scott Morrison said the payments would be equivalent to 20 days of emergency leave for the eligible volunteers.

It follows the government's announcement last week that Commonwealth public service volunteers would get at least four weeks of paid leave to fight bushfires under a plan to ensure more "boots on the ground".

"This announcement provides employees of small and medium sized businesses and self employed volunteers with the same level of support," Mr Morrison said in a statement on Sunday.

[snow*jewel]

At least some compensation for their hard work. 

[wide-world-of-stamps]

About bluddy time!

[davidc4430]

so firies in other states?

nsw is somehow more deserving?

not a good look as usual for scomo.

[chameleon54]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

so firies in other states?

nsw is somehow more deserving?

not a good look as usual for scomo.

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Same with the drought. If you listen to the popular media or the PM the drought is mainly affecting N.S.W & Queensland. The truth is South Australia has much larger areas of the state affected by severe rainfall deficiencies in the past 11 months ( January to November 2019 ) than either N.S.W or Queensland. You never hear about it on the media though. There is a map from the BOM site showing which parts of Australia are most affected by drought in 2019.   SA is clearly the worst affected state in the country.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/drought/

[icyfroth]

Is it not up to the state governments to administer state emegencies, though?

[davewil1964]

If the FEDERAL government is providing the compensation, it should be a blanket FEDERAL initiative.

Each state apparently has to go cap in hand to the Feds to get it for their volunteers. Must make ScoMo and Frydo feel important.

[lyhargr_0]

Its not just for NSW, all the states are eligible to apply, I just hope there is a myriad of paperwork they need to fill out to get their compensation

[davewil1964]

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@lyhargr_0 wrote:

Its not just for NSW, all the states are eligible to apply, I just hope there is a myriad of paperwork they need to fill out to get their compensation

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I just hope that's a typo.

The less paperwork the better.

[lyhargr_0]

lol sure was