The Federation Drought began in 1895 and reached its peak in 1901 and 1902. During the drought river systems across the nation suffered, notably the Darling River which virtually ran dry at Bourke, ...

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On 13 September 1926, the north-west Moree Mail train was travelling from Moree to Sydney when it was struck by five runaway carriages from a goods train near the Murulla Crossing. The disaster ...

Tropical Cyclone (TC) Debbie first reached cyclone strength on 25 March 2017, before developing over the next two days into a Category 2 cyclone. TC Debbie was forecast to increase rapidly in ...

The opening foreword of the decade highlights how the Australian Journal of Emergency Management (AJEM) is instrumental in identifying trends in emergency management, while remaining committed to ...

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AIDR Executive Director John Richardson discusses why avian influenza is not only a biosecurity issue, but also a community wellbeing issue. Isn’t this just about sick birds? If only it was. H5 avian ...

The information in this paper draws on the experiences in 2011 as Chief of Operations and Plans at the Queensland Reconstruction Authority and in 2017 as State Recovery Coordinator for the Queensland ...

Disasters affect communities long after the immediate response is over. Many councils are now supporting communities through recovery processes that can last months or years and rarely follow a ...

The Major Incidents Report brings together information about large disasters with Australian impacts. It helps emergency management professionals, researchers and the public understand what happened, ...

From its beginnings as a civil defence school to its evolution as Australia's national emergency management institute, the Mount Macedon site spent nearly 70 years helping build the capability, ...