Mountain ash providing a silver lining News Land managers and seed collectors in Victoria have found that storms enable them to more easily collect seeds from fallen mountain ash trees.
Premium The Briefing The Briefing: Bushfire Royal Commission calls for mandatory consideration of natural disaster risk in land-use planning decisions November 3, 2020 By Chris Woods Editors' Picks The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements has weighed in on vexed issues surrounding property and natural disasters by recommending mandatory consideration of natural disaster risk in land-use planning decisions.
The Briefing: Bushfire Royal Commission emphatically warns of global warming, stops short of recommending emissions reduction November 2, 2020 By Chris Woods Editors' Picks The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements Report has made extensive references to the role of global warming in exacerbating future disasters, while framing the threat in recommendations based on its terms of reference.
Premium Case studies Learning from experience: how the 2020 bushfires response built on Black Saturday August 19, 2020 By David Donaldson Case studies Applying the lessons of Black Saturday around communication and coordination helped authorities protect communities during last summer’s terrible bushfires.
What can Australia’s pandemic response teach us about bushfire recovery? July 30, 2020 By Janet Stanley Community & Social The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements shows the evident complexities of dealing with two major disasters at the same time.
Kathryn Campbell on DSS’s pandemic response and why she’s proud to be a public servant April 29, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Community & Social Kathryn Campbell tells how her department has worked tirelessly throughout the bushfires and the pandemic, and what public servants across the country should be considering for the future.
NSW Office of Emergency Management using online portal to speed up insurance claims April 8, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Communications & Technology The NSW Office of Emergency Management is improving the process of insurance claims for flood and bushfire affected councils across the state with an online portal.
Defence wraps up bushfire operation March 26, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Defence Defence personnel have officially finished supporting state and local authorities with bushfire emergency and recovery tasks. Operation Bushfire Assist formally ceased on March 26.
What has Australia learned from the coronavirus and bushfire crises? March 17, 2020 By The Mandarin Editors' Picks There’s more to managing crises nationally than creating greater coherence and coordination at the political level.
Bipartisanship in the fog of war March 16, 2020 By The Mandarin Defence From WWII to cyclones to the coronavirus pandemic currently being experienced, Australia’s parliamentarians have shown the willingness and sense to work together to see the nation through the serious challenges of sociopolitical and climate history.
After a summer of extremes, here’s what to expect this autumn March 4, 2020 By Catherine Ganter Australian Capital Territory The autumn outlook suggests warmer-than-average temperatures for most of Australia.
Disasters, planning and Australian tourism March 2, 2020 By Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes Alan March Economy & Industry Australia’s devastating bushfire season of 2019-2020 highlights our country’s vulnerabilities to global perceptions of Australia; the fires clash with the idea that we are a safe tourist destination.
Opinion: Black Saturday to Black Summer – turning lessons into action to help keep people safe February 28, 2020 By David Nicol Features The unprecedented scale of Australia’s most recent bushfire crisis captured the world’s attention. The nation suffered tragic losses of human and animal life — and immeasurable impacts upon the environment and economy. Along with the incredible stories of survival, heroism and community — significant concerns have also been raised about how we deal with such […]
NSW scraps forest privatisation plan February 20, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins New South Wales The New South Wales government has axed its plan to privatise the state’s plantation forests. The decision follows a five-month independent scoping study which looked at damage to the state’s forestry assets obtained during the recent bushfire crisis.
Public servants who fought bushfires left waiting for payment February 19, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins News Victorian public servants who recently helped fight fires have not yet been paid the entitlements earned over summer.
