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NSW RFS
The New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) is a volunteer-based firefighting agency and statutory body of the Government of New South Wales. The NSW RFS is responsible for fire protection to approximately 95% of the land area of New South Wales and the Jervis Bay Territory, while urban areas and over 90% of the population are the responsibility of Fire and Rescue NSW. The NSW RFS is the primary combat agency for bush fires in the state. In addition, they respond to structural fires, vehicle fires, motor vehicle accidents and wide range of other emergencies, as well as providing preventative advice to local communities. The NSW RFS is the world's largest volunteer fire service, with over 70,000 volunteer members. They are organised into 2,000 brigades (local units). , the service employed over 1,600 paid staff who fulfil operational, management, administrative and mitigation roles. The agency attends to approximately 30,000 incidents per annum. The agency is led by its C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
States And Territories Of Australia
The states and territories are the national subdivisions and second level of government of Australia. The states are partially sovereignty, sovereign, administrative divisions that are autonomous administrative division, self-governing polity, polities, having ceded some sovereign rights to the Australian Government, federal government. They have their own state constitutions in Australia, constitutions, Parliaments of the Australian states and territories, legislatures, Premiers and chief ministers of the Australian states and territories, executive governments, Judiciary of Australia#State and territory courts and tribunals, judiciaries and state police#Australia, law enforcement agencies that administer and deliver public policy, public policies and programs. Territories can be autonomous administrative division, autonomous and administer local policies and programs much like the states in practice, but are still legally subordinate to the federal government. Australia has si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newcastle, New South Wales
Newcastle, also commonly referred to as Greater Newcastle ( ; ), is a large Metropolitan area, metropolitan area and the second-most-populous such area of New South Wales, Australia. It includes the cities of City of Newcastle, Newcastle and City of Lake Macquarie, Lake Macquarie and it is the hub of the List of suburbs in Greater Newcastle, New South Wales, Lower Hunter region, which includes most parts of the cities of City of Newcastle, Newcastle, City of Lake Macquarie, Lake Macquarie, City of Maitland, Maitland, City of Cessnock, Cessnock, and Port Stephens Council. Newcastle is also known by its colloquial nickname, Newy. A Newcastle resident can also be known as a Wiktionary, Novocastrian. Located at the mouth of the Hunter River (New South Wales), Hunter River, it is the predominant city within the Hunter Region. Famous for its Hunter Valley Coal Chain, coal, Newcastle is the largest coal exporting harbour in the world, exporting 143 million tonnes of coal in 2022. Beyon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rural Fires Act 1997
In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry are typically described as rural, as well as other areas lacking substantial development. Different countries have varying definitions of ''rural'' for statistical and administrative purposes. Rural areas have unique economic and social dynamics due to their relationship with land-based industry such as agriculture, forestry, and resource extraction. Rural economics can be subject to boom and bust cycles and vulnerable to extreme weather or natural disasters, such as droughts. These dynamics alongside larger economic forces encouraging urbanization have led to significant demographic declines, called rural flight, where economic incentives encourage younger populations to go to cities for education and access to jobs, leaving older, less educated and less weal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RFS HQ
RFS may refer to: Companies and organizations * Radio Frequency Systems, a telecommunications company * New South Wales Rural Fire Service, a volunteer-based firefighting agency in New South Wales, Australia * Royal Forestry Society, a charitable organisation established in 1882 in Northumberland, England * Riordan, Freeman & Spogli, a private equity firm today known as Freeman Spogli & Co. * ''Rossijskij Futbol'nyj Soyuz'' or Russian Football Union, the governing body of football in Russia Computing * Receive flow steering, a scaling technique for network traffic processing * ReiserFS, a general-purpose, journaled computer file system * Remote File System, a distributed file system developed by AT&T in the 1980 Other uses * Renewable Fuel Standard (United States), a US federal program * ''The Review of Financial Studies'', an academic journal * Russian Federation Ship, an occasionally applied exonymical ship prefix for the Russian Navy that is not used by it official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attorney-General's Department (Australia)
The Attorney-General's Department, also known as the Department of the Attorney-General, is the law enforcement and justice department of the Australian Government. The department is responsible for improving Australia's Law of Australia, federal law and justice framework and provides legal services to the Australian Government. The department also oversees various sub-agencies and services including the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and the Director of Public Prosecutions (Australia), Director of Public Prosecutions. The head of the department is Attorney-General for Australia, currently Michelle Rowland, who is assisted by the Departmental secretary, Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department, currently Katherine Jones . History The Attorney-General's Department is one of seven original Commonwealth Departments of state, commencing with the Commonwealth of Australia on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader
The ''St George and Sutherland Shire Leader'' is a regional newspaper serving part of the southern Sydney region. is owned by Australian Community Media and serves around 500,000 people and caters for the St George and Sutherland areas of southern Sydney. History The paper was first published on Wednesday, 29 June 1960, as a weekly publication. It was formed as a merger of smaller local newspapers: ''The Times'', ''The Express'', ''The District and Shire News'' and ''The Kingsgrove Riverwood Courier''. By 1961, the newspaper had a circulation of 81,000 free weekly copies and sold another 1,000. It ranged in size from 48 to 56 pages. It employed two sub-editors, four reporters, one photographer, a columnist and used outside contributors. In 1984, ''The Leader'' moved to a twice-weekly publication on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Goan Kenyan-born journalist Cyprian Fernandes was editor for around 10 years in the late 1980s to 1990s. At the time, regional newspapers were flourishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Far West (New South Wales)
The Far West region of New South Wales, Australia refers generally to the western part of the state, which is too dry to support wheat or other crops or intensive grazing, pastoral endeavours. It is west of the North West Slopes, New South Wales, North West Slopes, Central West, New South Wales, Central West and the Riverina. It is an area with limited rainfall. The only major rivers found in it are the Darling River and the Murray River (on its southern edge), which originate in the Great Dividing Range to the east. The region corresponds to the combination of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's forecast areas of ''Upper Western'' and ''Lower Western''. It also corresponds to the Western Division (New South Wales), Western Division established under the New South Wales ''Western Lands Act 1901''. The only city in the Far West is Broken Hill, New South Wales, Broken Hill. Other significant towns are Bourke, New South Wales, Bourke, Brewarrina, New South Wales, Brewarrina, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chatsbury Bushfire
The Chatsbury/Bungonia bushfires of 1965 was a series of bushfires that burned from 5 to 14 March 1965 in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia. The fires destroyed the villages of Tallong, Wingello, and most of the surrounding orchards. The fire is thought to be ignited by a spark from a Chatsbury Station angle grinder. It quickly spread and covered and destroyed the areas' livestock. It is thought to be the greatest disaster in the area. Three people were killed. 28 homes were destroyed in Tallong, 31 in Wingello. The fire was eventually stopped (or burnt out) near Nowra Nowra () is a city in the South Coast, New South Wales, South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is located south-southwest of the state capital of Sydney (about as the crow flies). As of the 2021 census, Nowra has an estimated po ... on the NSW South Coast. References Bushfires in New South Wales 1960s fires in Oceania 1965 fires 1965 disasters in Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governors Of New South Wales
The governor of New South Wales is the representative of the monarch, King Charles III, in the state of New South Wales. In an analogous way to the governor-general of Australia, Governor-General of Australia at the national level, the governors of the Australian states, Governors of the Australian States perform constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level. The governor is appointed by the monarch on the Advice (constitutional), advice of the Premier of New South Wales, and serves in office for an unfixed period of time—known as serving ''At His Majesty's pleasure''—though five years is the general standard of office term. The current governor is retired judge Margaret Beazley, who succeeded David Hurley on 2 May 2019. The office has its origin in the 18th-century colonial governors of New South Wales upon its settlement in 1788, and is the oldest continuous institution in Australia. The present incarnation of the position emerged with the Federation of Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gippsland
Gippsland () is a rural region in the southeastern part of Victoria, Australia, mostly comprising the coastal plains south of the Victorian Alps (the southernmost section of the Great Dividing Range). It covers an elongated area of east of the Shire of Cardinia (Melbourne's outermost southeastern suburbs) between Dandenong Ranges and Mornington Peninsula, and is bounded to the north by the mountain ranges and plateaus/highlands of the High Country (which separate it from Hume region in Victoria's northeast), to the southwest by the Western Port Bay, to the south and east by the Bass Strait and the Tasman Sea, and to the east and northeast by the Black–Allan Line (the easternmost section of the Victoria/New South Wales state border). Gippsland is divided by the Strzelecki Ranges and tributaries of the Gippsland Lakes into West Gippsland, South Gippsland, Latrobe Valley, Central Gippsland and East Gippsland. At the 2016 Australian census, Gippsland had a popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria, Australia
Victoria, commonly abbreviated as Vic, is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state (after Tasmania), with a land area of ; the second-most-populated state (after New South Wales), with a population of over 7 million; and the most densely populated state in Australia (30.6 per km2). Victoria's economy is the second-largest among Australian states and is highly diversified, with service sectors predominating. Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid northwest. The majority of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
