Have we learnt all the lessons from our 2020 Black Summer disaster? Last weekend’s blaze suggests that we haven’t.
The Insurance Council of Australia has calling for disaster resilience funding deals between states and territories to flow after the Commonwealth agreed to a landmark $741 million flood package.
Former emergency and defence force chiefs say the federal government is dragging its heels on key natural disaster recommendations made nearly two years ago.
Global warming is changing Australia’s weather for the worse and a new study shows for the first time this is the key driver of deadly bushfires.
The Kam family lost their house and all their belongings in the NSW bushfires that tore through the Southern Highlands in the days before Christmas two years ago. Since then,they’ve been fighting to rebuild their home.
Thredbo disaster survivor Stuart Diver is putting his personal knowledge to good use in a new podcast about natural disasters and how to survive them.
A new Australian Climate Service will be established to guide the national recovery agency as it looks at ways to make the country more resilient to future natural disasters.
The Emergency Services Minister says telcos have failed to provide information on critical infrastructure to help fireys make “life and death decisions”.
As Australia’s fire seasons intensify and unlikely parts of the globe burn,how is the behaviour of fire changing? How have people managed fire in the past? And how might we live with the big blazes of the future?
With a new fire season upon us there needs to be public assurances from our governments that everything that can and should be done to prepare is in train.
New laws to declare a national state of emergency will go to Parliament within days after the Attorney-General made a number of concessions to colleagues.