I bet for the $14m price of the fire station plus it's ongoing annual running costs we could have got an upgraded ATC service at Ballina and probably a few other places as well.
AGREED
In other countries they upgrade the airspace first before putting in RFFS. That is they try and prevent the accident in the first place. Pretty logical to me.
SOUNDS FAIR
I upgraded the tower establishment criteria years ago but no one has updated the RFFS establishment criteria.
OK, but thats not about E
Until that happens large amounts of safety resources will be mis-allocated.
YEP
All the best for Christmas and the new year to everyone.
We all agree here too! 
So how about the ability to provide the E if that is what you want. It will cost a lot more than $14M but I agree it would be better bang for buck but it needs to be done in its entirety.