Independent Senator Jacqui Lambie says Australia is going to struggle with a “wicked hot” summer coming up for the country. “I find it bizarre; we’re also nearly at the end of September, and we’re only just having the summit now? Seriously, we are in for a wicked hot summer by the looks about it,” she told Sky News Australia. The Labor government will be holding the inaugural National Bushfire Preparedness Summit soon, bringing together 250 representatives from state and territory governments, emergency services, industry bodies, and the community sector. “Are we prepared? I don’t think we are, I don’t think we’re even close to being prepared,” Ms Lambie said. “The other problem that we have … is that every time that we go to these committee meetings and meet people and we say ‘what does it look like if defence isn’t brought in’, they go ‘we’re stuffed, we are stuffed’.”
Independent Senator Jacqui Lambie says Australia is going to struggle with a “wicked hot” summer coming up for the country.
“I find it bizarre; we’re also nearly at the end of September, and we’re only just having the summit now? Seriously, we are in for a wicked hot summer by the looks about it,” she told Sky News Australia. The Labor government will be holding the inaugural National Bushfire Preparedness Summit soon, bringing together 250 representatives from state and territory governments, emergency services, industry bodies, and the community sector.
“Are we prepared? I don’t think we are, I don’t think we’re even close to being prepared,” Ms Lambie said. “The other problem that we have … is that every time that we go to these committee meetings and meet people and we say ‘what does it look like if defence isn’t brought in’, they go ‘we’re stuffed, we are stuffed’.”
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