ABC Victoria (Ballarat) interview with Dave Gossage re launch of Baker Hughes Innovation Development Program
Our State President Dave Gossage AFSM was interviewed this morning by ABC Ballarat Saturday Breakfast presenter Matt Tribe about the launch of our exciting Baker Hughes Innovation Development Program. Click the media player below to hear [...]
Bushfire Volunteers and Baker Hughes Launch joint national program to drive innovation in bushfire management
LOCATION: Perth Western Australia, May 14, 2021 - Bushfire Volunteers Western Australia (WA) and Baker Hughes, a global energy technology company, announced the launch of the Bushfire Volunteers-Baker Hughes Innovation Development Program, to encourage and [...]
The Mandarin: We need to get better at learning how to learn from bushfires
Below is an interesting article recently published by our friends at The Mandarin. For the record, the Association agrees and has advocated for a Federal Government Agency to conduct standardised post incident reviews of all [...]
International Firefighters’ Day Memorial Service 2021
Minister Reece Whitby MLA, Bushfire Volunteers' Lorraine Webster, Member Rhys McDonald and John Mangini, and FES Commissioner Darren Klemm at the International Firefighters Day 2021 Memorial Service in Kings Park, Perth Yesterday, Bushfire [...]
6PR’s Oliver Peterson interviews President Dave Gossage AFSM re Mitigation
Bushfire Volunteers' President Dave Gossage AFSM was interviewed by radio 6PR's Oliver Peterson today regarding the unusually high smoke levels over the last couple of days and the value of bush fire mitigation, including prescribed/planned [...]
Unpaid Professionals – Jenelle Parkinson – Myalup Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade
This week, we share an interview with Jenelle Parkinson, a member of Myalup Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade. Jenelle shares some of her personal story about how, as a single mother of young children, her [...]
2021 State Election Candidate Survey
In the past 10 years, the annual expenditure of the State Government Department responsible for Fire and Emergency Services (FESA/DFES) almost doubled, ballooning to nearly half a billion dollars this year. At the same time, [...]
Dept of Premier and Cabinet: re Wooroloo fire inquiry
On the back of feedback from various volunteers who attended the devastating Wooroloo fire, the association published this statement calling on the government to commit to an open, independent and inclusive review of its management. [...]
Nominations for DFES training facility project team
The association has been given a short amount of time to nominate volunteers who would like to be part of DFES project teams regarding the development of a new training facility that will apparently provide [...]
LGIS: Keeping Bushfire Volunteers safe and well
One of the many things the association has been working on behind the scenes for years is engaging with the Local Government Insurance Scheme (LGIS) to develop information and tools that help Local Government [...]