Prime Minister Scott Morrison has given his strongest indication yet that he will initiate a royal commission on this season’s bushfires. It may well become one of the most important inquiries this nation has witnessed.
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| Prime Minister Scott Morrison tours a farm in fire-ravaged Sarsfield, Victoria. |
The scope Mr Morrison outlined very broadly yesterday includes practical matters, such as focusing on the operational preparedness of federal and state agencies before the summer fires and the agencies’ responsiveness in the aftermath. Those are necessary lines of inquiry, and they should run alongside what we believe are equally necessary state-based inquiries and reviews into operations, preparations, obstacles and failure, such as the one being considered by NSW, or the one Victoria held after Black Saturday.
The more profound areas of focus, though, for the Commonwealth royal commission are shaping up as climate change responses and federal-state relations. How these latter themes of inquiry are framed will be of utmost importance.
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