Firefighter mental health support fund goes untouched: Senate inquiry

Katie Burgess
Updated May 28 2020 - 7:21am, first published 12:30am
A firefighter works to put out the NSW North Black Range bushfire. A dedicated fund set up to support frontline workers suffering PTSD from the bushfires has not been touched. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
A firefighter works to put out the NSW North Black Range bushfire. A dedicated fund set up to support frontline workers suffering PTSD from the bushfires has not been touched. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

Not a single cent has been spent from a fund set up to help frontline responders to the Black Summer bushfires deal with post-traumatic stress, senior government officials have confirmed.

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Katie Burgess

Katie Burgess

Federal politics reporter

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