In the Port Macquarie-Hastings area alone, 37 homes were destroyed or damaged. Over 500 rural landholders had their properties impacted in some way.

Dr Gillespie paid tribute to the "countless acts of bravery and selflessness during this time".

"I think of a local Wauchope volunteer firefighter, Ryan Channells, who despite being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer only a day before the major bushfires struck, went out to fight fires and help save many, many homes and properties because he thought he would just prefer to help other people, and that's what firefighters do."

The member for Lyne said because the fires on the Mid-North Coast were a couple of months ago it was time to reflect on some of the lessons from them.

"We have learnt in the telecommunications space that when one of these supercell fires come through everything can go out," he said.

"Mobile phones and satellite phones are taken out because the clouds prevent the satellite signal coming through."

He said all community halls should have "radio contact, a diesel generator, satellite phones and emergency refrigeration - it is an easy fix".

He also advocated that every area should have a "designated emergency centre".

"Some entities got half an hour's notice and were designated as emergency centers, like Club Old Bar and Club Taree," he said.

"Club Taree which normally looks after fine dining, a bit of entertainment and supporting the golf club, all of a sudden was home to roughly 720 people for a couple of days.

"They had to have enough supplies to feed and support those people, but the practicalities of it were quite challenging."

"We need systems, as the member for Eden Monaro said, like all the military procedures.

"If we had a system in place where everyone knows where the emergency centre is, and the centre had radios, satellite phones, emergency generators and maybe an underground tank of water - because many of the tanks around these places were burnt - it would be a great initiative."

Dr Gillespie said there also needed to be a "plan to get the timber industry back to recovery mode".

"There are a couple of mills that have been burnt out," he said.

"The employment of those workers and the businesses that run off those mills have summarily ceased."

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