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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Jasper Lindell

ESA culture fix must be more than 'tick-a-box' effort, overhaul chair says

Leanne Close, the former AFP deputy commissioner appointed to a committee tasked with improving the ACT's Emergency Services Agency. Picture by Elesa Kurtz

Culture issues within the Emergency Services Agency are "not going to be solved overnight" but the agency has good plans in place for the bushfire season, the chair of a committee tasked with improving the agency says.

Leanne Close, a former deputy commissioner in the Australian Federal Police, has been appointed to lead the oversight committee, a key recommendation of a review of the agency's executives.

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