Tag Archives: Rural Fire Brigade

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LNP TO PROVIDE GRANT FOR ROLLINGSTONE RURAL FIRE SHED

  An LNP Government will provide a grant of $100,000 through the Supporting Our Emergency Volunteers initiative, towards the construction of a Rural Fire Brigade Shed at Rollingstone. Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, said the Rollingstone Rural Fire Brigade had spent some time identifying and securing land for a shed and were now looking to build […]

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BILYANA RURAL FIRE BRIGADE OPENS NEW SHED

   Members of the Bilyana Rural Fire Brigade gathered for the official opening of their new rural fire station on Bluff Road at Bilyana, between Cardwell and Tully, on Saturday 1 July 2017. Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, said he was very pleased to be invited to attend the event, after he worked with the Bilyana […]

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Common Sense Prevails for Rural Fire Volunteers

Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, says common sense has prevailed after the Palaszczuk Labor Government finally bowed to overwhelming public pressure and voted to give volunteer rural firefighters access to adequate workers compensation arrangements. Mr Cripps said the Queensland Parliament yesterday passed a Bill to protect all Queensland firefighters who contract one of 12 specified cancers […]