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The New Government's pre-election commitments

LABOR’S PRE-ELECTION COMMITMENTS

Taken from Labor media releases;

  • $141.3 million to recruit an additional 350 CFA firefighters and 100 Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) firefighters over the next four years
  • Legislation to give career and volunteer firefighters presumptive rights to compensation for cancer claims arising from their service
  • A Parliamentary Inquiry into the pollution, contamination and unsafe practices at the training college at Fiskville to examine health effects on employees
  • Ensure that the Fire Services Property Levy is used to support firefighters and improve emergency response
  • Implement Emergency Medical Response at all integrated CFA stations
  • Re-establish a CFA/MFB Board of Reference to resolve staffing and station needs
  • Examine options for the establishment of a Career Firefighters Registration Board
  • Honour all agreements
  • Also train and equip firefighters with the latest technology to battle brown coal fires
  • Expand support services for firefighters suffering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • $18 million to purchase 50 new fire trucks… …to fund the new medium tankers in its first budget
  • $1 million to install toilet and wash room facilities at up to 100 rural CFA stations, with grants of up to $25,000 to brigades (while contributions from brigades will be welcomed, they will not be mandatory)
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