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NSW Government accepts all 76 bushfire inquiry recommendations – ABC News
Firefighters will be able to enter private properties in NSW and start hazard-reduction burns under new powers to be introduced after an independent inquiry into last summer’s bushfires.

Firefighters will be able to enter private properties in NSW and start hazard-reduction burns under new powers recommended as part of an independent inquiry into last summer’s bushfires.
The inquiry made 76 recommendations in the wake of Australia’s Black Summer, and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said her Government would adopt all of them.
Compulsory land clearing, night-time water bombing, and aggressive hazard-reduction burning were among the recommendations, as were strategies to protect…

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