25th - 26 th FebruarySadiyat Island Abu Dhabi

Disaster Resilience: Planning beyond our

imaginationMs Raelene Thompson

Australian Government Attorney-General’s DepartmentEmergency Management Australia

Executive Director – Australian Emergency Management Institute (AEMI)

The Australian Emergency Management Institute,Mount Macedon, Victoria, Australia

A Federated System

National Strategy For Disaster Resilience

• Disasters will happen

• Disaster resilience is your business

• Connected communities are resilient communities

• Know your risk

• Get ready - then act

• Learn from experience

Smoke from bushfires fill the sky over the city in Sydney, October 17, 2013

Smoke from bushfires Black Saturday 2009

View from Kinglake after 2009 bushfires

“Imagine”

Qld firefighter from the Rural Fire Brigade

Sam the Koala, Black Saturday

National Emergency RiskAssessment Guidelines