The federal government has agreed to implement the bushfire royal commission’s recommendation to establish a standing national resilience and recovery agency to help Australia better prepare for future natural disasters and drive long-term resilience policy outcomes.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and emergency management minister David Littleproud on Friday announced a number of reforms to “enhance and strengthen” the commonwealth’s emergency response and recovery capacity, as part of the federal government’s response to the bushfire royal commission’s final report
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This includes legislation which, if passed, will give the federal government the power to declare a national emergency.
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