The nation’s bushfire chief has admitted that people harmed by the Black Summer fires have been treated differently depending on where they lived.
The Commonwealth’s National Bushfire Recovery Agency was set up in the middle of the crisis to help the nation handle the emergency and the multi-billion dollar funding pool being amassed by governments and charities.
The agency’s boss Andrew Colvin told the bushfire royal commission on Thursday that “unfortunately” there had been inconsistent responses for people because of a lack of uniform data collection by the states.
Read more in Australia’s Daily Telegraph
