Jail Inmates will help produce sandbags in a partnership between a NSW council and a local prison.
Tag: disaster-recovery
Townsville hailed for floods clean-up
The national peak waste recovery body has praised Townsville council’s mammoth floods clean up effort.
Inside Townsville’s flood recovery efforts
A council at the centre of the North Queensland floods talks about the challenges of coordinating the recovery effort.
When disaster strikes: councils face volunteer challenges
State-wide databases and better-funded programs are needed to help councils respond to changes in how Australians volunteer around disaster.
Census fail and lessons for disaster recovery
Avoiding offline chaos.
Back to the fax: NAB web payments outage hits federal government
IP Australia forced to roll out emergency fax machine.
Councils eased on disaster recovery spending
By Paul Bell, President Local Government Association of Queensland Councils recovering from the devastating floods and cyclones of 2010 and 2011 have been given the green light to use their…