Australia is facing more challenging hazards than ever before. Biosecurity diseases, heatwaves, cyber outages, and tsunamis don’t happen in isolation.

Following the 2024-25 Higher Risk Weather Season, government and non-government organisations as well as industry representatives have gathered in Canberra to ‘war game’ what would happen in the most dangerous of crisis scenarios.

The 2019-20 Black Summer Bushfires had devastating effects on many families in Australia. These disasters show how vulnerable persons can often be overlooked. In particular, infants and young children who are dependent on others for care.

National Volunteer Week is Australia’s largest annual celebration of volunteering. This year’s theme is ‘Connecting Communities’.

Old Bar is a quiet coastal town surrounded by National Park, on the Mid Coast of New South Wales. It is home to the community Emergency Evacuation Centre located at Club Old Bar.

The Changing Places facility at Kilsyth Sports Centre has introduced amenities for people with a disability being evacuated during disasters.

Crisis exercising is using simulated scenarios that are designed to replicate real-life crisis situations. They’re done to help people and organisations prepare and respond to these emergency situations, when or if they actually happen.