'Hugely disappointed' emergency chiefs to hold bushfire summit with or without PM

Frustrated by government 'denial', Emergency Leaders for Climate Action ready to go it alone on bushfire crisis summit

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Former emergency leaders who have been pushing the Morrison government to take action on the climate say they will "go it alone" and convene their own summit on the bushfire crisis.

The Emergency Leaders for Climate Action say they will hold the summit after the current bushfire season because of their "huge disappointment in the lack of national leadership during a bushfire crisis".