Australia

The New South Wales (NSW) Reconstruction Authority has developed Australia’s first State Disaster Mitigation Plan (SDMP).

This publication covers how a need for more robust civilian disaster infrastructure is being acknowledged in Australian policy circles, and plans for beefing up the civilian infrastructure are, in fact, slowly taking shape.

This comprehensive analysis highlighted the economic impacts of the tourism shutdown from Australia's Black Summer Bushfires. This analysis could be used for budgeting and rebuilding in community-and-industry hotspots that may be far from the burn scar.

This report is a companion piece to the Major Incidents Report 2022–23, drawing upon some of these findings.

This report supports a shift in vision around social protection and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region by improving understanding of the socio-economic challenges from climate change, and how social protection can be used to manage them.

The Evacuation Planning handbook provides a nationally consistent approach to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of a five-stage evacuation process. It presents guidance on managing evacuations before, during, and after an emergency or disaster.

The seventh Major Incidents Report provides an annual record of major incidents that have been identified as significant by the emergency management sector in Australia during the 2022–23 financial year.

This report describes a subset of injuries which could reasonably be associated with specific extreme weather events or related natural hazards that occurred between June 2012 and 2022.