Under the new FESL, the state’s firefighters and the State Emergency Service were to be funded instead through a property-based levy - which would have been bad for the NSW economy in general, and some of the most vulnerable of individuals in particular.
However, this has been delayed after the government found that it would have left many households worse off, as well as commercial and industrial businesses.
I am pleased that the NSW Government listened to the REINSW and reversed this poor decision.