The body representing Queensland’s rural fire fighters has officially called on the state government to dissolve the agency which oversees them.  

The Rural Fire Brigades Association’s appeal comes amid an independent review into the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services, which oversees both urban, professional firefighters and their rural, volunteer counterparts, as well as the SES.

Its submission argues that the two fire fighting organisations are so "sociologically different" that they need to be “treated separately” and given different support to defend their communities.

RFBAQ general manager Justin Choveaux told the Guardian & Tribune that Queensland’s rural fire brigades were a collection of “independent and individual tribes” that reflected the diversity of communities across this vast and varied state.

He said long-serving volunteers had had “a gutful” of receiving edicts from