Queensland citizens draws to the attention of the House the draft amendments to the Fire Service Act 1990 specifically, two contentious issues. The first being the amendments that allow the Fire and Rescue Commissioner the ability to directly sack a member of a Rural Fire Brigade and decide who can or cannot be a brigade chairperson, treasurer or elected office bearer. Secondly, the amendments that dictate an incident controller in the future can only come from people with expertise in large scale structural fires and bushfires, specialist and technical rescue, response to disasters and hazmat. This means that going forward all incident controllers can only come from Fire and Rescue; not Rural Fire, where most large incidents happen.

Your petitioners, therefore, request the House to reject the draft amendments to the Fire Service Act 1990.