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Researchers at the University of Queensland are developing technology for a new phone application intended to help people survive natural hazards providing information and helping emergency services to locate them....

An awareness campaign to teach children how to help prepare for natural hazards will be broadcast in Queensland from this month. 'This campaign will go a long way in ensuring our younger generations are aware of the risks, educated in the steps to take, and can help ensure their households are prepared' said Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts...

This report aims to explore the issue of multi-agency coordination and cooperation in disaster response from a non-government organisation (NGO) perspective by assessing the interactions between NGOs, as well as between NGOs and other stakeholders, in

In a report by the Age, PricewaterhouseCoopers partner, Chris Latham urged that because of increasing urbanisation and the effects of climate change, a national disaster insurance scheme is now needed more than ever and that with government support the scheme could be introduced within three years...

With climate change, population growth and food shortages predicted, our cities will need to adapt to a difficult future says John Stanley, Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney...

This agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of New South Wales aims to address risk priorities such as severe storms, floods and bushfires by building on existing knowledge and programs. It includes the continuation of a dedicated

This agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of Queensland aims to reduce communities' vulnerability to natural hazards such as flood, storm tide, cyclone, severe storm and bushfire by supporting local government and other

This agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of Western Australia addresses risk priorities ranging from tropical cyclones, bushfires, floods, earthquake and tsunami, to climate change-related sea level rise and more intense storms