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The NSW premier says sacking Shane Fitzsimmons was “not about personalities” but the need to improve the state’s natural disaster response.
Shane Fitzsimmons informed emotional staff that he had been dumped,and the disaster management body abolished,after criticism over its handling of the NSW floods.
NSW Emergency Services Minister Steph Cooke has voiced her “full support” for embattled Resilience NSW boss Shane Fitzsimmons,even as her government plans to disband his agency.
An inquiry has recommended a major reset of emergency management in the face of increasing extreme weather events.
The premier must not kick this can down the road past the state election next March. He has asked for federal help and it should be given.
Resilience NSW boss Shane Fitzsimmons has hit back at the government’s flood inquiry describing its findings about the disaster agency as disappointing,without evidence and based on inaccurate or incorrect information.
Former police commissioner Mick Fuller and Professor Mary O’Kane’s report to Premier Dominic Perrottet calls for the biggest overhaul of emergency services since they were established.
Leaks of a government report into this year’s floods response have focused on Resilience NSW and its boss Shane Fitzsimmons but the problems are much wider.