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There needs to be a greater integration of environment and heritage protections in Australia’s emergency planning and responses, the royal commission into the nation’s natural disaster preparedness has found. Convened following the Black Summer bushfires, the royal commission handed down its findings publicly on Friday. Among them, was that the federal government needed to take a more active role during natural disasters and that…