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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2021-10-12" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Bushfire Season Review</name>
      <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002194">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Bushfire Season Review</heading>
        </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4335" kind="question">
        <name>Mr ODENWALDER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Elizabeth</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2021-08-25" qonNum="600">
            <name>Bushfire Season Review</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002195">
          <inserted>600 <by role="member" id="4335">Mr ODENWALDER (Elizabeth)</by> (25 August 2021).  On what date will each of the following actions, arising from the independent review of South Australia's 2019-20 bushfire season, led by former Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty, be complete:</inserted>
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        <page num="7666" />
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002196">
          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;Provide thermal imaging cameras for each of the 55 CFS groups?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002197">
          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;Undertake disaster risk reduction strategies focusing on protection of critical infrastructure under the $16.7m joint commonwealth/state disaster resilience and risk reduction package?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002198">
          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;Create a monitoring system to capture real-time data from a range of systems onto a common picture to assist the state emergency centre with decision-making during emergencies?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002199">
          <inserted>(d)&amp;#x9;Develop a lightning tracking system to assist with early detection and rapid response to lightning ignitions?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002200">
          <inserted>(e)&amp;#x9;Additional BOM resources to support state emergency centre decision-makers? </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002201">
          <inserted>(f)&amp;#x9;Increased investment in emergency alert, for improved emergency warnings? </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002202">
          <inserted>(g)&amp;#x9;Australian Fire Danger Rating System—towards the latest fire science to better inform the community during extreme fire weather? </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002203">
          <inserted>(h)&amp;#x9;Provide additional public education on high-risk activities during periods of high fire danger?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002204">
          <inserted>(i)&amp;#x9;Implement the agreed outcomes of the 2019 Operation Nomad review? </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002205">
          <inserted>(j)&amp;#x9;Enhance Alert SA to improve bushfire warnings, grass and bushfires to watch zones? </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002206">
          <inserted>(k)&amp;#x9;Design space for the ABC emergency broadcaster into the new state control centre? </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002207">
          <inserted>(l)&amp;#x9;Undertake a major overhaul of education programs to refocus messaging that will improve understanding of key information such as the role of places of last resort, hazard reduction application processes, fuel reduction strategies and the importance of bushfire plans? </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002208">
          <inserted>(m)&amp;#x9;Clarify SAFECOM's enabling functions and commence consultation on a department model for SAFECOM?</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4840" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. V.A. TARZIA</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Hartley</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Police</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2021-08-25" qonNum="600">
            <name>Bushfire Season Review</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002209">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4840">The Hon. V.A. TARZIA (Hartley—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services):</by>  The South Australian Fire and Emergency Services Commission (SAFECOM) have advised:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002210">
          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;11 November 2020.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002211">
          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;January-June 2022. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002212">
          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;29 April 2021.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002213">
          <inserted>(d)&amp;#x9;28 January 2021.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002214">
          <inserted>(e)&amp;#x9;August 2021. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002215">
          <inserted>(f)&amp;#x9;27 October 2020. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002216">
          <inserted>(g)&amp;#x9;July 2022.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002217">
          <inserted>(h)&amp;#x9;8 December 2020.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002218">
          <inserted>(i)&amp;#x9;28 January 2021. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002219">
          <inserted>(j)&amp;#x9;27 October 2020. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002220">
          <inserted>(k)&amp;#x9;27 October 2020.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002221">
          <inserted>(l)&amp;#x9;Multiple suite of actions:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002222">
          <item sublevel="2" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Educate community to clarify expectations on limitations of hazard reduction—25 November 2020.</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002223">
          <item sublevel="2" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Reinforce messaging for individuals to prepare their homes and have a bushfire plan—25 November 2020.</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002224">
          <item sublevel="2" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Improve understanding of the role of places of last resort—25 November 2020. </inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002225">
          <item sublevel="2" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Continue to clarify and educate the community on language between emergency and evacuation – progressing.</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002226">
          <item sublevel="2" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Improve CFS website to better distinguish between the warning message polygon and the fire boundary—14 May 2021.</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="202110129e8d78fa3ee8498880002227">
          <inserted>(m)&amp;#x9;29 January 2021.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
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