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#EmergencyServicesSummit gave voice to those protecting Australia and helping us recover. Politicians need to act immediately on their recommendations — or face more unnecessary loss of lives, properties and livestock
These frontline workers have been dealing with the bushfire crisis all summer. They have flown to Canberra for the #EmergencyServicesSummit.
Great to be a part of today’s #EmergencyServicesSummit held by @unionsaustralia to discuss what frontline workers have been facing during the recent bushfires and what is needed from government. 🙏 to those MPs who came along to hear from workers directly #proudtobeunion #cpsu
Coming up - @MicheleONeilAU will join @PatsKarvelas on @RNDrive to discuss today’s #EmergencyServicesSummit
Rae from the @CPSUnion - “the disaster recovery allowance is wholly inadequate.” $40 a day is not enough. That is why we are pushing for it be the national minimum wage. #emergencyservicessummit
No government ministers turned up for #EmergencyServicesSummit
“The government has listened to small business and the tourism industry. To not hear the voices of workers who have been saving lives is a huge gap in the government’s knowledge.” - @MicheleONeilAU
Disability worker and @ASUnion member Kim Hitchcock tells #EmergencyServicesSummit
“Some of our staff have had to evacuate their homes 3 or 4 times and still turn up to work.”
Lyndsey a member of @nswnma - we have to consider not just the trauma emergency services workers have gone through but their families as well. #emergencyservicessummit
“We’ve been calling a dedicated broadband spectrum for emergency services for years - and it falls on deaf ears.”
@PoliceAssocNSW President Tony King expresses his frustration with the lack of communication infrastructure at #EmergencyServicesSummit
“Our people don’t have money - they can’t keep living in tents...”
Arthur Rorris from the South Coast Labour Council told the #EmergencyServicesSummit about the reality of how difficult life is in fire affected communities.
“When it comes to this disaster everything was foreseeable and they decided to wind it (resources) back.”
@PoliceAssocNSW Secretary Pat Gooley tells #EmergencyServicesSummit that government failed to plan for the fire crisis.
Tom Roberts the ACTU’s director of Industrial and Social Policy, is giving us the rundown of some of the industrial issues such as leave that have been raised from the bushfires. #emergencyservicessummit
“Our frontline workers are particularly vulnerable to developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”
Senior Policy Officer on Work Health and Safety @unionsaustralia Deborah Vallance tells #EmergencyServicesSummit
Nurse Diane Lang tells #EmergencyServicesSummit that many disability service providers in fire zone had no evacuation plan - that’s got to change.
What’s the estimated total cost over the long-term of the fire crisis?
@JimboStanford estimates it will be astronomical - around $100 billion
#EmergencyServicesSummit
Economist from @CntrFutureWork @JimboStanford tells the #EmergencyServicesSummit that the long term health cost of the fire crisis will be close to $4 billion.
“We need to see a change in policy that acknowledges a warming climate is putting every worker at risk..”
@MicheleONeilAU addressing the #EmergencyServicesSummit
And we’re under way.
@MicheleONeilAU opens the #EmergencyServicesSummit at @Aust_Parliament in Canberra.
#auspol
Union members in Canberra today for the #EmergencyServicesSummit that #ausunions are hosting.
Listen to Tess on #9Today about what’s needed.
#auspol
“We need to be better prepared. We need to understand what’s needed staff, what’s needed for welfare and what the community’s needs are.” Paramedic Tess Oxley on the Bushfire Emergency Services Summit taking place in Canberra today. #9Today
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