New national resilience taskforce welcomed but councils seek federal mitigation program to fund local recovery.
Tag: floods
SafeWork NSW fast tracks asbestos assessments on flood damage
Managing the clean up.
Pop-up prison could flood: Labor
Flood plain risk.
Data disaster: Do GIS systems protect Australians against extreme events?
Using mapping for disaster planning.
Disaster Online: NSW storm traffic surges but no flash crash
Tweets keep people off trains, roads and safe
NBN offers big maintenance savings: BIS Shrapnel
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski Economic forecasting and industrial research house BIS Shrapnel has estimated that junking Australia’s existing copper phone lines for optical fibre-to-the-home under the National Broadband…
Putting out fires with mapping technology
Mapping technology used in last year's Queensland flood disasters is being used to help South Australia’s Country Fire Service (CFS) volunteers. The CFS has been working with location intelligence…
Victoria floods $19.3m into warning systems
By Paul Hemsley Water minister Peter Walsh said the $12.1 million Floodzoom tool will be built to improve communications to communities that are situated in areas that flood. …
Victoria gives councils $2.2 million
Minister for Local Government Jeanette Powell said the Victorian Coalition Government has made a further $2.2 million in relief payments available. The payment comes under the $5 million Local…
ALGA wants Federal Budget to focus on infrastructure
The rebuilding of infrastructure in flood-ravaged areas shouldn't overshadow the need for ongoing funding in the Federal Budget, the Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) has said. ALGA president Genia McCaffery…
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