Group Plan milestone

The Joint Standing Committee met today and endorsed the draft CDEM Group Plan, we've been working on for the past 18 months, to go out for public consultation. For me this is a great benchmark and I'd like to thank everyone for the help they've provided in getting the Plan to this critical stage.

Next steps include a month for public consultation, followed by a hearing on the 16th October. We then send the proposed Plan down to the Minister for a bit of bedtime reading - he gets a month for that. The Plan then comes back and goes up for final approval on the 4th December.

If you'd like a copy of the draft Plan, you can get that here. We've also provided some guidance on requirements for the submission - there are a few basics we need but didn't want to go to the extreme of providing a form to fill in. You can pick up the submission requirements here.