$598m boost to national park firefighters, radio networks after Black Summer bushfires - Sydney Morning Herald

A further $93.7 million in the state budget will go towards a climate change adaptation strategy embedding risk assessments and planning for floods, drought and bushfires across government.

It was reinforced in the most recent flood the extent to which people rely on communication like radio to make timely decisions in a natural disaster and the upgrading of the radio network is a criti… [+1874 chars]

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