Lookleft, all I see is another brand new ten story building in Canberra full of public servants and glossy brochures. I attended a fire two years ago started by two kids doing circle work in an old ute in the King Valley (myhree fire) . By the time we got there as backup an hour and a half later, Elvis and two Hercules were already working the ridge.
How fast is this new national body going to be able to react? How do we avoid a national fleet turning into a white elephant - too slow to react, too important to be used on small fires and, like the grand fleet at Scapa Floe, being kept in reserve for “the big one?”.