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The head of the bushfire recovery agency says the government is working to make fire-affected communities more resilient as they rebuild following the bushfire disaster.

“We are looking at cash grants and moving cash into the community to help people in those immediate cases,” Andrew Colvin told Sky

News. “We need to look at the long term, how can we rebuild communities to be more resilient, in some cases better than it was before.”

 

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Are they working to not use DEW to cause fifty thousand recorded fire incidents on Australian and Australia citizens again? Cos that would be most effective at solving the problem, wouldn't it? 😉

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