PHOTO: Emergency services are vital for our communities - but who should pay?
A DECISION by the NSW Labor Government to increase the Emergency Services Levy (ESL) which helps fund NSW Fire & Rescue, Rural Fire Services and State Emergency Services has piled dramatic cost increases on many rural shires - but Coonamble seems to have dodged the financial bullet.
The Country Mayors Association took the government to task soon after the announcement, saying that local government would be "marched to the wall" thanks to an increase of more than $77 million in . . .
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