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Article: Fed: Govt to pay for Georgia Peach and the Incredible Hulk
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- January 11, 2002
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Fed: Govt to pay for Georgia Peach and the Incredible Hulk
NOWRA, NSW, Jan 11 AAP - The federal government would bear the
$800,000 cost of bringing
the helitankers Georgia Peach and the Incredible Hulk to Australia,
acting Prime Minister
John Anderson said today.
The two Erickson Air-Cranes, the brother and sister of the water
bombing chopper Elvis,
were brought over from the United States to help battle the bushfires.
The federal government would also coordinate talks with state and
territory governments
on future improvements to Australia's aerial firefighting capability.
Mr Anderson ...