It wants the Council of Australian Governments to oversee an audit of recommendations from other federal and state inquiries into past bushfire events.
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The union’s national secretary,Peter Marshall,said there had been at least 15 bushfire-related inquiries in the past 20 years.
“In many cases,the recommendations of these expensive,time-consuming and comprehensive reviews remain yet to be implemented,” he said.
Mr Marshall,who also leads the union’s militant Victorian branch,said the role of climate change,military deployment,prescribed burning and fuel reduction and the role of the Commonwealth had previously been canvassed in other reviews.
On the weekend Mr Morrison said he would take his plan for a royal commission to his cabinet.