9 News: Resilience NSW is set to be scrapped and its commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons stood down as the state government overhauls its emergency response network.

Resilience NSW is an agency set up after the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires to coordinate emergency services and their disaster management. The agency has a $777 million budget.

So, a publicly funded investigation after the bushfires (which were themselves caused by disastrous management from the experts when 'fuel-reduction burns' blew out of control) resulted in a further $777 bil being spent on setting up yet another incompetent layer of management.

A report by former police commissioner Mick Fuller and chief scientist Mary O'Kane has been handed down after the inquiry and recommended Resilience NSW be shut down because it's ineffective

Classic Aussie-style. An expensive, public-funded bureaucracy of experts set-up to tell everyone what to do - who end up being totally useless in a 'real-world' situation - and in fact make everything much worse.

Chris Minns: The evidence is overwhelming at this point that the massive bureaucracy that is Resilience NSW being placed on top of our emergency services has not worked.

No-one gets held accountable of course. Yes Fitzsimmons will be paid out, then promoted sideways - but that's not accountability. How about the idiots who setup Resilience NSW in the first place? This is what happens when the system reigns supreme - no-one is ever at fault.

Shane Fitzsimmons - Aussie fat cat

Here's the real worrying part:

The report also recommended a fifth deputy commissioner position to be created within NSW Police to focus on responding to and recovering from natural disasters.

Kevin Morton, police association: It makes a lot of sense putting police at the front and centre of disaster management.

No, it doesn't make sense! Australia is already a de facto police state - they don't need more power. The police were nowhere to be seen during the floods - unless you count setting up speed cameras in flood affected areas.

It's not complicated. We simply need a normal, functioning, emergency response unit. Fit, able bodied people who are not going to shit their pants when faced with an emergency. Otherwise, do nothing and stay the fuck out of the way. Give the $777 mil per year to normal people doing the DIY rescues, and the victims.