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To lodge your submission electronically, please complete the fields below and upload your submission. A maximum of 5 files may be uploaded.

Please note: Electronic submissions are limited to 5 megabytes in size. Should your files exceed this limit, you may submit via post or email instead. Files too large in size will not be published to the website.

Download the cover sheet for postal submissions.

* Title:

Other (please state):

* First name:

* Surname:

Organisation represented by your submission (if applicable):

* Email address:

* Postal address:

* Suburb:

* Postcode:

* State:

Other (if outside Australia):

* Telephone:

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* Main topics addressed by your submission(s):

Causes and circumstances of the bushfires

Policy, preparation and planning of governments, emergency services

Preparation and planning by communities and households

Response to the bushfires

Essential services, including water and power

Building

Insurance

Other (if applicable):

Please list any towns or communities that are discussed in detail in your submission

Confidentiality

The Commission will consider all requests for confidentiality. Should you wish for your submission, or parts of your submission, to be treated as confidential, please clearly state the reason in the space provided below. If you require more room, please attach a separate page and provide together with your submission.

Should the Commission consider the request for confidentiality not to be appropriate you will be provided with an opportunity to withdraw your submission or re-submit it in a form suitable for publication.

Please select one of the following

I acknowledge that my submission will be treated as a public document and may be published, quoted or summarised by the Commission.

OR

* I request that my submission, or parts of my submission, be treated as confidential, and not published quoted or summarised by the Commission, for the reasons stated here:

Acknowledgements

* I understand that by lodging this submission:

I can be contacted by the Royal Commission in relation to my submission.
Anonymous submissions will not be accepted.
The name and town or suburb of each submitter will be identified as part of every published submission. Other contact details will be removed before publishing.
The Commission will not publish submissions if it believes that the submission material is or could be defamatory, offensive, contravenes anti-discrimination or anti-vilification legislation or is outside the scope of the Commission’s terms of reference.

Terms of Reference

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Practice Notes

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