Emergency Services Minister Carmel Zollo says a review of South Australia's bushfire management system will mean key changes.
She says they will be phased-in by next year's fire season.
Ms Zollo says co-ordination of resources will be improved and there will be a greater level of community participation in bushfire prevention strategies.
"We'll be improving the current structure of bushfire management from a complicated three-tier structure to a streamlined and outcome-focused two-tier structure," she said.
"The CFS [Country Fire Service] will assume the role of the preparation of bushfire management plans instead of local government.
"The councils will still have a role, clearly they'll still have a role at the regional management committee level, there'll be representations, there'll be at least two representatives from council.
"We'll remove from them the onus to actually prepare the bushfire management plan and also to have a bushfire prevention officer."
...From ABC online...
Lets hope these "new roles" also come with "new funding" and "new staff"...
