Ongoing focus on disaster management needed to avoid kneejerk reactions from one event to the next
estimated that 97% of federal disaster funds were spent on recovery – the most public, visual stage of crisis management – compared to only 3% spent on mitigation, preparedness, and resilience.
“In other policy areas you have advocates for communities: First Nations sovereignty, social policy, income or the environment,” he said.“But then if you look at disaster management you have, typically, a small community of directly affected people. Local and regional councils needed more funding, he said, as any lessons learned would need to have relevant context applied by those with on-the-ground experience. Stark said councils would need extensive support to move beyond “rates, rubbish, and roads” and into more challenging tasks across crisis mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery periods.
The NSW flood inquiry will deliver its report at the end of this month, while Queensland’s review is due before 31 August.
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