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Infrastructure Australia releases the Infrastructure Priority List, presenting 147 nationally significant infrastructure proposals and focusing on resilience.

A national Royal Commission into Australia’s devastating Black Summer bushfires has established an agreement from the Governor-General, His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd).

The Morrison Government has released the Terms of

A Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (the Framework) is needed to ensure that disaster recovery programs can be evaluated for their effectiveness. By improving the quality of disaster recovery evaluations, governments will be able to improve subsequent

2019 was Australia's warmest year on record. Australia's area-averaged mean temperature for 2019 was 1.52 °C above the 1961–1990 average, well above the old record: +1.33 °C in 2013. Mean maximum temperatures were the warmest on record at 2.09 °C above

Australia and many other re-prone parts of the world have experienced an increase in bush fires over the past decade. The bush fires have increased in intensity and caused more damage. There is increasing debate within Australia and overseas about how

This paper focuses on how drought can affect the productivity and profitability of farms. It is an ongoing challenge for businesses, communities and regions. The stress of drought can affect health and well being.

Droughts are part of Australia's landscape and managing drought is a feature of Australian agriculture. Australian farming businesses and farming communities are adopting increasingly sophisticated and effective strategies to deal with drought and respond

This paper builds on an earlier briefing note on the “Factors affecting the usefulness of existing social protection databases in disaster preparedness and response” (Barca and O’Brien, 2017) – co‑financed by Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and