It has been announced that Queensland has joined the scheme to pay volunteer firefighters $300/day during deployment to the current fire emergency – Stuart Marsh ‘PM Scott Morrison extends $6000 volunteer firefighter payments to Queensland‘ 9News (31 December 2019).
For discussion of the scheme see:
- Compensating volunteer firefighters (December 31, 2019); and
- Commonwealth to pay NSW to reimburse firefighters (December 29, 2019)