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Legislative Council - Fifty-First Parliament, Second Session (51-2)
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COUNTRY FIRE SERVICE, RIVERLAND

The Hon. J.S.L. DAWKINS (15:06): I have a supplementary question. In light of the minister's statement about the need for the best preparation for these risks, will she indicate what assistance the government can provide to the Riverland communities to bulldoze and control-burn vast areas of dead citrus trees and vineyards that exist in that region?

The Hon. CARMEL ZOLLO (Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Road Safety, Minister Assisting the Minister for Multicultural Affairs) (15:07): I will have to check with my Chief Officer. That particular area would have its own bushfire plan for a particular region. As the honourable member knows, rural councils are required to have a plan. There is also the Bushfire Mitigation Review which I commissioned last year and which spent some six months taking evidence right around South Australia. We also have a review of the act and the operation of the act being undertaken now.

We have also had recommendations from Wangary. A lot of those recommendations have already been put in place. In particular, in relation to those recommendations that were also made in the Bob Smith report, the CFS Project Phoenix and the Bushfire Summit, many of them have already been put in place as well, particularly in relation to the planning that we now see. It is obviously the intention of this government to bring all of that information together—the Bushfire Mitigation Review and the recommendations from Wangary—to ensure that, when it comes back to this parliament with those legislative changes, they are all picked up. That, in itself, I hope would see a better prepared community.

However, we are not just relying on that. Rural councils do need to have their own bushfire plans and, as I said, I will check with the Chief Officer (Euan Ferguson) as to whether there has been a variation to that because of the extra dry conditions this year.

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