Victorian volunteer firefighters have taken to protests, gone offline and set uniforms alight in anger over a new tax that hits rural communities hardest. Here's why the protests matter and why it ...

Picture: Millstream South Rural Fire Brigade Mr Hughes said the residents of Forsayth were remaining in place “at this time”. “We’ve had Queensland Police Service operating in close ...

A three-day total fire ban has been issued across South West Queensland as Queensland ... reduction burns by private landholders. Rural Fire Service Deputy Chief Officer Matthew Inwood urged ...

A prepare-to-leave warning remains in place for Lakeland – southwest of Cooktown in Queensland – as of ... blaze as of Monday morning. NSW Rural Fire Service Inspector Ben Shepherd told ...

Judith Ferrari entered the Queensland Rural Fire Service in 2008 and said over her 15-year career she constantly battled misogynistic views and culture. Judy Ferrari was with the Wartburg Rural ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Gympie. Followed categories will be added to My News. The Theebine first officer and Rural Fire Brigade Association of Queensland representative for the ...

Whistleblowers are being told not to "hesitate" in coming forward after an ABC investigation uncovered allegations of sexism in ... to volunteers in the Rural Fire Service. Of 27,200 volunteers ...

The legislation, due for a second reading in state parliament on Tuesday, would see a renamed Queensland Fire Department take control of local brigades through Rural Fire Service Queensland from ...

A Queensland Rural Fire Service volunteer in the field. The letter also stated they disagreed with giving the commissioner the right to sack any member of a rural fire brigade, and decide on who ...