INQ098
Recommendations for this Inquiry
INQ-ref | REC-UID | CODE | SubCode | SrcNUM | Recommendation |
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INQ098 | REC098-2174 | A - Responsibility | 9 - Community education | Recommendation 45 | The Committee recommends that the Insurance Council of Australia coordinates a public education campaign aimed at illustrating the importance of asset protection and how this can be achieved (that is, insurance products). |
INQ098 | REC098-2184 | A - Responsibility | 21 - Role of Commonwealth Government | Recommendation 55 | The Committee recommends that the functions and administration of Emergency Management Australia be reviewed to develop an organisation that is proactive and involved in the development and implementation of national policy on emergency response. |
INQ098 | REC098-2185 | A - Responsibility | 21 - Role of Commonwealth Government | Recommendation 56 | The Committee recommends in acknowledgement of the expertise that the Commonwealth can bring to the Australasian Fire Authorities Council and of funding already supplied to the Council for the development of a National Aerial Firefighting Strategy, that the current status of Emergency Management |
INQ098 | REC098-2131 | A - Responsibility | 24 - Govt responsibility | Recommendation 2 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth through the Council of Australian Governments ensure that states and territories have adequate controls to ensure that local governments implement required fuel management standards on private property and land under their control. |
INQ098 | REC098-2155 | A - Responsibility | 25 - Inquiry, audit, lessons management and after action review | Recommendation 26 | The Committee recommends that Emergency Management Australia initiate a process involving Australasian Fire Authorities Council and the Australian Assembly of Volunteer Fire Brigades Association to review |
INQ098 | REC098-2176 | B - Preparedness | 1 - Land-use and building regs | Recommendation 47 | The Committee recommends that Standards Australia incorporate building maintenance into AS3959–1999: Construction of buildings in Bushfire Prone Areas, perhaps renaming it as AS3959–1999: Construction and maintenance of buildings in Bushfire Prone Areas. |
INQ098 | REC098-2178 | B - Preparedness | 1 - Land-use and building regs | Recommendation 49 | The Committee recommends that Standards Australia review the clarity of AS3959–1999: Construction of buildings in Bushfire Prone Areas to ensure that all relevant stakeholders can interpret and apply the Standard in the way it is intended. |
INQ098 | REC098-2133 | B - Preparedness | 1 - Land-use and building regs | Recommendation 4 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth seeks to ensure that the Council of Australian Governments resolve when asset protection zones will be located on private land and when on public land and gain assurances that adequate maintenance of zones will be enforced. |
INQ098 | REC098-2136 | B - Preparedness | 4 - Fire season preparation | Recommendation 7 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth through the National Heritage Trust assist the states and territories in the construction, maintenance and signage of fire trail networks. |
INQ098 | REC098-2142 | B - Preparedness | 5 - Hazard reduction burns | Recommendation 13 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth seek to ensure that the Council of Australian Governments seek agreement from the states and territories on the optimisation and implementation of prescribed burning targets and programs to a degree that is recognised as adequate for the protection o |
INQ098 | REC098-2163 | B - Preparedness | 10 - Infrastructure | Recommendation 34 | The Committee recommends that Emergency Management Australia and the Australian Communications Authority jointly with the Australasian Fire Authorities Council: |
INQ098 | REC098-2167 | B - Preparedness | 10 - Infrastructure | Recommendation 38 | The Committee recommends that Emergency Management Australia and the Australian Communications Authority, in conjunction with the respective state and territory governments, ensure the survivability of essential communication installations during fire incidents by strategic fuel management around |
INQ098 | REC098-2138 | B - Preparedness | 10 - Infrastructure | Recommendation 9 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth seeks to ensure that the Council of Australian Governments resolve to increase water access points for bushfire fighting on public land to the minimum national standard. |
INQ098 | REC098-2168 | C - Response | 2 - Emergency powers | Recommendation 39 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth investigate, and where necessary, require the urgent enhancement of the provision of emergency power and telecommunications services for the purpose of |
INQ098 | REC098-2164 | C - Response | 7 - Inter-agency communication | Recommendation 35 | The Committee recommends that: |
INQ098 | REC098-2165 | C - Response | 7 - Inter-agency communication | Recommendation 36 | The Committee recommends that Emergency Management Australia and the Australian Communications Authority work with state and territory bush fire authorities to ensure that that district communication plans |
INQ098 | REC098-2153 | C - Response | 7 - Inter-agency communication | Recommendation 24 | The Committee recommends that the state and territory bushfire agencies ensure that, on a district basis, communications are addressed within the district operations plans and that the plans are capable of easy adoption to incident action plans. |
INQ098 | REC098-2181 | C - Response | 11 - Evacuation and shelters | Recommendation 52 | The Committee recommends that the Australasian Fire Authorities Council’s suggested evacuation protocol be adopted by all of the Australian States and Territories. |
INQ098 | REC098-2175 | D - Recovery | 6 - Insurance and legal liability | Recommendation 46 | The Committee recommends that insurance companies ensure that potential and existing policyholders are aware of the need to regularly review their insurance policies to prevent undervaluing. This could be done through renewal notices and quarterly reminders. |
INQ098 | REC098-2183 | D - Recovery | 6 - Insurance and legal liability | Recommendation 54 | Further to recommendation 21 in Chapter 4, the Committee recommends that the Commonwealth seeks to ensure that the proposed Council of Australian Governments review of the bushfire management, initiate |
INQ098 | REC098-2172 | D - Recovery | 6 - Insurance and legal liability | Recommendation 43 | The Committee recommends that taxes on insurance premiums be calculated only on the premium in order to eliminate the current cascading cost. |
INQ098 | REC098-2157 | D - Recovery | 6 - Insurance and legal liability | Recommendation 28 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth Government work with Australasian Fire Authorities Council to review the insurance cover provided to volunteer fire fighters in all states and territories and ensure that cover is adequate for loss of life or injury and related loss of income and pro |
INQ098 | REC098-2150 | E - Agency Organisation | 12 - EM agency and authority | Recommendation 21 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth seeks to ensure that the proposed Council of Australian Governments review of the bushfire management initiate with the states, as a priority, a review of the |
INQ098 | REC098-2140 | E - Agency Organisation | 12 - EM agency and authority | Recommendation 11 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth seeks to ensure that the Council of Australian Governments implements arrangements in which greater flexibility is devolved to local brigade captains in the |
INQ098 | REC098-2151 | E - Agency Organisation | 29 - Operational Health and Safety | Recommendation 22 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth Attorney-General engage the Commonwealth, states and territories in a review of occupational health and safety legislation as it affects the proper and effective functioning of bush fire services. |
INQ098 | REC098-2159 | E - Agency Organisation | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Recommendation 30 | The Committee recommends that in changing the incident management systems as proposed in recommendation 23 above all bushfire agencies review concerns about difficulties in communicating operational information from the fire front to air operations. |
INQ098 | REC098-2149 | E - Agency Organisation | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Recommendation 20 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth work with the states and territories through the proposed Council of Australian Governments to review the response to bushfires to ensure that principles of fire prevention and rapid and effective initial attack are adopted and implemented by all rur |
INQ098 | REC098-2166 | E - Agency Organisation | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Recommendation 37 | The Committee recommends that Emergency Management Australia work through the Australasian Fire Authorities Council to ensure that: |
INQ098 | REC098-2135 | E - Agency Organisation | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Recommendation 6 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth seeks to ensure that the Council of Australian Governments implements to a minimum national standard adequate access to all public lands including wilderness areas of national parks. |
INQ098 | REC098-2152 | E - Agency Organisation | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Recommendation 23 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth, through the Council of Australian Governments and the Australasian Fire Authorities Council, initiate an overhaul of the incident management systems used |
INQ098 | REC098-2154 | E - Agency Organisation | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Recommendation 25 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth seek to ensure that the Council of Australian Governments seek the adoption by all states and territories of multi-agency protocols and agreements for fire |
INQ098 | REC098-2170 | E - Agency Organisation | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Recommendation 41 | The Committee recommends that Emergency Management Australia request the Australasian Fire Authorities Council to: |
INQ098 | REC098-2187 | E - Agency Organisation | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Recommendation 58 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth require state and territory governments to have in place comprehensive bush fire management plans as a pre-requisite for accessing funding from the National Heritage Trust and like programs. |
INQ098 | REC098-2141 | E - Agency Organisation | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Recommendation 12 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth through the National Heritage Trust, offer assistance to the states and the Australian Capital Territory to develop specific prescribed burning guides, at least |
INQ098 | REC098-2156 | E - Agency Organisation | 36 - Volunteers | Recommendation 27 | The Committee recommends that: |
INQ098 | REC098-2173 | E - Agency Organisation | 36 - Volunteers | Recommendation 44 | The Committee suggests that registered volunteer fire fighters be exempt from paying Fire Levy tax to help offset some of the expense they incur during active duty. The exemption could be for a period of 12 months |
INQ098 | REC098-2158 | E - Agency Organisation | 37 - Funding | Recommendation 29 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth should commit funding for aerial fire fighting beyond the 2003–04 season on the proviso that the Australasian Fire Authorities Council and the state and territory governments make a commitment to: |
INQ098 | REC098-2169 | E - Agency Organisation | 37 - Funding | Recommendation 40 | The Committee recommends that, for the purpose of communications for the police, ambulance and fire brigades, any rental costs associated with the use of radio sites under the care, control or management of the Commonwealth, state, territory or local government be waived, other than for the ongoi |
INQ098 | REC098-2171 | E - Agency Organisation | 37 - Funding | Recommendation 42 | The Committee strongly recommends that the New South Wales, Victorian and Tasmanian Governments abolish the Fire Levy tax they impose on home and business insurance premiums (wherever applicable), making it payable through household rates instead. |
INQ098 | REC098-2160 | F - Research and technology | 13 - Mapping and data quality | Recommendation 31 | The Committee recommends that Geoscience Australia take responsibility, in conjunction with Emergency Management Australia, for developing a national spatial data policy to coordinate the development of data systems, the collection of data and the sharing of data between all the emergency respons |
INQ098 | REC098-2161 | F - Research and technology | 13 - Mapping and data quality | Recommendation 32 | The Committee recommends that Emergency Management Australia be required to participate in the development and delivery of spatial information systems as part of a national approach to emergency planning and management data. |
INQ098 | REC098-2162 | F - Research and technology | 13 - Mapping and data quality | Recommendation 33 | The Committee recommends that the 1:100,000 national mapping program be accelerated to achieve an average life of no greater than 10 years with priority given to those areas most susceptible to national disasters. |
INQ098 | REC098-2139 | F - Research and technology | 17 - Assets and technology | Recommendation 10 | The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth seeks to ensure that the Council of Australian Governments initiate consideration of the relaxation of restrictions on the movement of fire fighting equipment |
INQ098 | REC098-2143 | F - Research and technology | 26 - Research | Recommendation 14 | The Committee recommends that, as part of its study into improving the effectiveness of prescribed burning, the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre establish a national database that includes areas targeted for fuel reduction, the area of fuel reduction achieved based on a specified standard of |
INQ098 | REC098-2144 | F - Research and technology | 26 - Research | Recommendation 15 | The Committee acknowledges community concerns about smoke pollution as a result of prescribed burning and recommends that the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre pursue its proposed study into smoke modelling. |
INQ098 | REC098-2145 | F - Research and technology | 26 - Research | Recommendation 16 | The Committee recommends that the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre monitor the effect of grazing on mitigating the return of woody weeds to recently fire effected areas across various landscapes including |
INQ098 | REC098-2130 | F - Research and technology | 26 - Research | Recommendation 1 | The Committee recommends that the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre establish, as part of its program to implement a single fuel classification system, a national database that provides information on current levels and rates of accumulation of fuel loads that takes into account vegetation typ |
INQ098 | REC098-2146 | F - Research and technology | 26 - Research | Recommendation 17 | The Committee recommends that the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre conduct further research into the long term effects and effectiveness of grazing as a fire mitigation practice. |
INQ098 | REC098-2147 | F - Research and technology | 26 - Research | Recommendation 18 | The Committee recommends that the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre conduct further research on the impact of weeds on the flammability of land and the most economically and environmentally appropriate way to remove weeds after fire events. |
INQ098 | REC098-2179 | F - Research and technology | 26 - Research | Recommendation 50 | The Committee recommends that Program D of the Commonwealth Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre examines the (pending) outcome of the ABCB’s review of the existing Building Code of Australia bushfire |