WA firefighting equipment lacking: parliamentary report | The Australian. WA firefighters are battling dud radios, a lack of basic equipment and budget cuts, despite a [...more]

   -TOLing: Govt loads gun, Dept pulls trigger -The first casualty of war? -Workplace drug testing “an ill-informed reaction” -PAT trials are voluntary via SITREP [...more]

O’Farrell to shift emergency costs from insurers to public | David Shoebridge MLC. “Barry O’Farrell’s first instinct is to always deliver for big business and this [...more]

Fire chief denies closures  | The Maitland Mercury. The station manager was the only firefighter on the premises with one of the permanent firefighters sent to the Branxton [...more]