Paying the price: fires cost Victoria millions

By Professor Lesley Hughes
January 18 2017 - 8:00am

SHORTLY before Christmas, the Australian government announced it would reject a Productivity Commission recommendation to invest $200 million in natural disaster mitigation. The government, releasing its response to the Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into Natural Disaster Funding Arrangements, said natural disaster mitigation was primarily a state and territory responsibility.

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