Premium Insights and analysis Climate change shaping to be a huge policy priority and lots of work Editors' Picks When the new Department of Climate Change, Energy and Environment and Water (DCCEEw) commences on July 1 it will have a lot on its plate.
Imagine it’s 2030 and Australia is a renewable energy superpower in Southeast Asia May 11, 2022 By Melissa Conley Tyler Editors' Picks We are into the final fortnight of the election campaign, and commentators have noted that climate change has been almost invisible. This is despite the
The learning vacuum of bushfire public inquiries — a review March 29, 2022 By The Mandarin Editors' Picks Making Sense of Natural Disasters – The Learning Vacuum of Bushfire Public Inquiries (2022) is a new book written by Dr Graham Dwyer, Centre for Social
Investing in disaster preparedness means going with science February 2, 2022 By Martin Loosemore, Mohammad Mojtahedi and Maziar Yazdani Communications & Technology On 18 January, Australia broke yet another record, suffering the worst day of its COVID pandemic, with a total of 77 deaths recorded, exceeding the
Infrastructure body calls for systemic approach to resilience planning as cost of natural disasters escalates August 20, 2021 By Shannon Jenkins Federal Australia must take a whole-of-system approach to infrastructure planning in order to become more resilient to natural disasters and other threats, according to new research
Assessment app, evacuation tool among bushfire projects to receive $4.2m July 28, 2021 By Shannon Jenkins Communications & Technology The federal government will grant the Bushfire Building Council of Australia $3 million to develop a national self-assessment app intended to assist Australians with protecting
Commonwealth’s new Australian Climate Service begins operations July 2, 2021 By Shannon Jenkins Energy & Environment The federal government’s new service dedicated to sourcing and providing agencies with detailed climate and disaster information has officially gone live. The Australian Climate Service
Domestic violence soars after natural disasters. Preventing it needs to be part of the emergency response January 27, 2021 By Jennifer Boddy and Celeste Harris Community & Social Domestic and family violence soars in the months and years following natural disasters. It usually involves physical and psychological violence perpetrated by men against women
Disaster season is here — do you have a Resilience Action Plan? Here’s how the small town of Tarnagulla built theirs January 18, 2021 By Mittul Vahanvati Editors' Picks Heatwaves, floods, bushfires: disaster season is upon us again. We can’t prevent hazards or climate change-related extreme weather events but we can prepare for them
NSW digital twin to play part in emergency planning December 16, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Communications & Technology The New South Wales government is updating its spatial digital twin so it can be used to help emergency services be more prepared for disasters,
Think tank wants governments to prepare their health sectors for climate change impacts December 7, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Energy & Environment Australia’s federal, state and territory health departments must address the potentially worsening health threats posed by climate change in their long-term planning, according to a
Should the ADF take a bigger role in bushfires and other domestic emergencies? The answer isn’t so easy November 17, 2020 By Susan Harris Rimmer Defence The Commonwealth and state governments are responsible for keeping people safe, and the role of the ADF is to protect the nation. But how these
Government to establish national resilience and recovery entity November 16, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Energy & Environment The federal government has agreed to implement the bushfire royal commission’s recommendation to establish a standing national resilience and recovery agency to help Australia better
Other awful years in history November 3, 2020 By Claudia Hooper Editors' Picks Around the world, people can’t wait for 2020 to end. COVID-19 has killed close to a million people globally over the course of the pandemic.
