Page 280 - Week 01 - Thursday, 16 February 2006

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I would not want to think that the government seeks to conceal these hard issues about our bushfire fighting capability and preventive planning capabilities, and I would not want to think that this government would conceal issues that we have asked about—touchy questions about evacuation policy, evacuation management policy, and other such things—all of which start to give the opposition a little bit of concern, a bit of a slide in our confidence, about this government’s capability with emergency management in general, the bushfire management threat and the counterterrorist management threat.

We will be pursuing this issue. I put on the record here today that we clearly have a very poor response on a very, very serious FOI request—not a flippant one—which goes to the heart of serious questions about our emergency management planning.

The Assembly adjourned at 6.27 pm until Tuesday, 7 March 2006, at 10.30 am.

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