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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 864 asked in the Legislative Council on 11 October 2022 by Hon Martin Aldridge

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

FIRE DANGER RATING SYSTEM

864. Hon MARTIN ALDRIDGE to the Minister for Emergency Services:

I refer to the Australian Fire Danger Rating System and Legislative Council question without notice 839.

(1) Will the minister please table the revised SAP 3.5.A relating to total fire bans, noting it has been almost six weeks since the implementation of the new rating system?

(2) Will the minister please identify which fire weather districts have recorded a fire behaviour index of 50 and above since 21 September 2022; and, of those, how many were subject to a TFB?

(3) Noting that one fire weather district has recorded an FBI of 97, which is 47 points above the threshold for a TFB declaration, yet according to local and Department of Fire and Emergency Services intelligence a TFB was not warranted, what action has been taken to review this rating and the data that informed it?

Hon STEPHEN DAWSON replied:

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. I do have an answer for the honourable member, but I think there is an obvious error in it, so I will check it and come back to him with an answer.