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Greg Mullins

Greg Mullins AO AFSM: Adjunct Fellow, UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response; former Commissioner Fire & Rescue NSW; Climate Councillor, and founder of Emergency Leaders for Climate Action

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The last Summer of climate disasters shows Australia still isn’t ready. It's time for a climate disaster levy

As state, territory and local governments face increasingly constrained budgets and mounting deficits, the need for greater investment across all facets of disaster risk reduction, response and recovery is growing. Remember the outcry from volunteer firefighters about 30-year-old fire trucks? This is just the tip of a growing iceberg.

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The last Summer of climate disasters shows Australia still isn’t ready. It's time for a climate disaster levy
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