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Recruitment incentives are needed to boost the number of emergency services volunteers to respond to natural disasters and take the pressure off the ADF.

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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago

Yup, thats a huge if, especially amongst the younger people required for physical work like emergency services.

Its a pipe dream politically, but taxing our coal and gas industry to an inch of their life and using it to pay SES volunteers would be a nice start. Its pretty much established that they are responsible for the increased occurances of natural disasters, they should pay a part in cleaning them up. And I'll take my unicorn in pink....

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