Fire costings sought by oppn

The Victorian opposition has called on the government to release detailed costings of its $867 million bushfires royal commission response package.

Opposition bushfire response spokesman Peter Ryan has written to the government seeking an urgent briefing to release all economic modelling and data that support each bushfire initiative.

'So far all Victorians have seen from Labor is dodgy figures that are wildly exaggerated and which change from day to day,' Mr Ryan said in a statement on Thursday.

'We also want to see the financial analysis behind (Victorian premier) John Brumby's decision not to upgrade power lines and his rejection of the recommendation for voluntary buybacks of properties in high fire-risk areas.'

In its official response to the royal commission last week, the government announced it would implement 60 of the 67 recommendations and said it supported, in principle or in part, six more.

As part of the response, the government committed $867 million to the reforms. 

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