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Premium Content Subscriber only Byfield National Park will be more resilient to future bushfires after receiving a $495,000 boost, as part of $10.7 million in bushfire recovery projects announced Friday by the Australian and Queensland governments. In 2019, the Cobraball bushfire burnt across the Capricorn Coast, engulfing 12,100 hectares of land including 15 homes, 38 sheds, 8,500 hectares of grazing land and 275 hectares of horticultural production land. Federal Member for Capricornia Michelle Landry said the fourth and final round of Local Economic Recovery projects was a joint investment of $36.8 million to support recovery in Queensland communities hit hard by the 2019-20 bushfires. Ms Landry said the 21 projects funded across Queensland included an exciting project in Capricornia. ....
A group of survivors has criticised the Federal Government for taking too long to take “clear and decisive” action regarding bushfires. It has been 100 days since the relevant Royal Commission findings, and the Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action are impatient for the government to accept the Commission’s recommendations. “The government has only “noted” or announced its “in principle” support for many recommendations,” said BSCA president Jo Dodds. “Bushfire survivors, emergency workers and volunteers deserve clear answers, detailed timelines and transparent budgets for every recommendation, as has been the case with previous Royal Commissions.” The BSCA was founded after the Tathra and District fire in March 2018, but its concerns would be shared by Central Queensland residents who have been impacted by fires, most recently around the Cobraball fires of 2019. ....