bushfire

A parliamentary inquiry wants to understand how the state is dealing with climate change adaptation and climate disaster preparedness.

Aerial imagery can play a key role in helping mitigate the growing threat of natural disasters in addition to providing crucial information to assist emergency responses to catastrophes like the 2019/20 bushfire crisis and the 2022 floods. In its 2023 report Future Proofing Australia’s Resilience, the Insurance Council of Australia predicted that costs associated with extreme weather events were projected to double by 2050 as bushfires, cyclones, and floods increased in severity and frequency.   Daniel Paull, executive vice president and general manager of Nearmap Australia and New Zealand said with high-cost catastrophic events likely to impact communities at least […]

A scathing NSW audit had found the bushfire recovery grants the NSW government’s administration of the grants lacked integrity.

The Audit Office of NSW has produced a damning report following its review of the 2019-2020 Bushfire Local Economic Recovery (BLER).

Rina Bruinsma, National Emergency Management Agency deputy coordinator, is drawn to the intersection between climate change and people.

Exacerbating existing inequalities during crises was discussed at length by an expert panel titled ‘Disaster Response in a Changing Climate’.

Victoria’s Bushfire Recovery Grants for Community Facilities announces 25 recipients as the state continues to rebuild following the 2019-2020 bushfires.

When scientists compared data from 1998-2001 with data from 2002-2018, Australia’s annual forest burned area had increased 350%. 

A federal $200 million recovery funding package is available to NSW communities who are still affected by disaster floods from February and March this year.

    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 — not just as individuals but as a community. One way to do that is develop what is known as a resilience action plan, or RAP. A RAP […]

Bushfire support will be coordinated between councils in NSW under a re-established organisation sharing resources between jurisdictions.