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My final statement after stepping down as FBEU President - a message for the future. #AusUnions #FBEU

The NSW Electoral Commission has now formally declared the 2018 FBEU election result, with a copy of that declaration and the FBEU SITREP statement here. My congratulations also to the successful candidates. I stand united with Leighton Drury, Mick Nairn and our 2018 State Committee of Management.

After 13 years on the Union’s State Committee, I thought it incumbent upon me to reflect on where…

NSW firefighters and union members lost in WW1 | #FBEU #FRNSW #NSWFB #Ausunions

June 28, 1914: It started with a gun shot. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, were assassinated by pro-Serb nationalist student Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

July 31, 1914: Australia prepared to join the war when Labor leader Andrew Fisher declared that Australians will defend Britain “to our last man and our last shilling” in bi-lateral…

'Smoke on the water'- The story of one of Australia's biggest ship fires at sea @FRNSW #FRNSW

Adapted from a story I wrote for Fire Brigade Employees’ Union ‘NSW Firefighter’ Magazine Oct 2010

  Incident: 3 storey Superstrucure fire on board bulk coal carrier “Ming Mercy”

Date: Thursday 7th August, 1997 – “D” Platoon

Where: 3.3 nautical miles off coast of Port Kembla NSW Australia

Fire Service: NSW Fire Brigades (now Fire and Rescue NSW)

  It was a crystal clear winter’s day on the south…