Emergency Management chaos in Victoria
Craig Lapsley should not have been replaced as Emergency Management Commissioner. The position was created in 2014 and did nothing to improve the delivery of emergency services. It simply imposed another level of expensive bureaucracy. There was already (and still is), a full army of bureaucrats and politicians responsible for the administration of the various emergency services. The Minister is paid to take responsibility for overall administration so the position of Commissioner was never justified.Craig Lapsley resigned in August and was immediately replaced by Andrew Crisp. The performance of emergency management services in Victoria needs a complete review. The fragmentation of responsibilities probably led to the debacle and high cost of dealing with a scrub fire at Grantville on February 1 this year. The State has a Minister and full department of bureaucrats dealing with emergency services, so why has another tier been imposed, apart from creating more jobs for bureaucr...