INQ317
Recommendations for this Inquiry
INQ-ref | REC-UID | CODE | SubCode | SrcNUM | Recommendation |
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INQ317 | REC317-4095 | A - Responsibility | 9 - Community education | Recommendation 43 - Education on the Australian Fire Danger Rating System | State and territory governments should deliver education to ensure that the public understands the new Australian Fire Danger Rating System ratings, the potential danger attached to each rating, and the action that should be taken in response to each rating. |
INQ317 | REC317-4112 | A - Responsibility | 9 - Community education | Recommendation 60 | State and territory governments should: |
INQ317 | REC317-4097 | A - Responsibility | 9 - Community education | Recommendation 45 - An education campaign on the Australian Warning System | State and territory governments should ensure that the implementation of the Australian Warning System is accompanied by a carefully developed national education campaign that considers the needs of all Australians. |
INQ317 | REC317-4084 | A - Responsibility | 9 - Community education | Recommendation 32 - Disaster education for individuals and communities | State and territory governments should continue to deliver, evaluate and improve education and engagement programs aimed at promoting disaster resilience for individuals and communities. |
INQ317 | REC317-4100 | A - Responsibility | 9 - Community education | Recommendation 48 - Nationally consistent air quality information, health advice and interventions | Australian, state and territory governments should: |
INQ317 | REC317-4130 | A - Responsibility | 21 - Role of Commonwealth Government | Recommendation 78 - Accountability and assurance mechanisms at the Australian Government level | The Australian Government should establish accountability and assurance mechanisms to promote continuous improvement and best practice in natural disaster arrangements. |
INQ317 | REC317-4085 | A - Responsibility | 22 - Role of local Gvt | Recommendation 33 - Responsibility for local government disaster management capability and capacity | State and territory governments should take responsibility for the capability and capacity of local governments to which they have delegated their responsibilities in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural disasters, to ensure local governments are able to effectively discharge |
INQ317 | REC317-4086 | A - Responsibility | 22 - Role of local Gvt | Recommendation 34 - Resource sharing arrangements between local governments | State and territory governments should review their arrangements for sharing resources between their local governments during natural disasters, including whether those arrangements: |
INQ317 | REC317-4073 | A - Responsibility | 24 - Govt responsibility | Recommendation 21 - Improve understanding of Australian Defence Force capabilities | State and territory governments should take steps to ensure that there is better interaction, planning and ongoing understanding of Australian Defence Force capabilities and processes by state and territory fire and emergency service agencies and local governments. |
INQ317 | REC317-4058 | A - Responsibility | 24 - Govt responsibility | Recommendation 6 - Enhanced national preparedness and response entity | The Australian Government should enhance national preparedness for, and response to, natural disasters, building on the responsibilities of Emergency Management Australia, to include facilitating resource sharing decisions of governments and stress testing national disaster plans. |
INQ317 | REC317-4123 | A - Responsibility | 24 - Govt responsibility | Recommendation 71 - Appropriate sharing of personal information | Australian, state and territory governments should ensure that personal information of individuals affected by a natural disaster is able to be appropriately shared between all levels of government, agencies, insurers, charities and organisations delivering recovery services, taking account of al |
INQ317 | REC317-4078 | A - Responsibility | 24 - Govt responsibility | Recommendation 26 - Developing the aerial firefighting industry's capability | Australian, state and territory governments should adopt procurement and contracting strategies that support and develop a broader Australian-based sovereign aerial firefighting industry. |
INQ317 | REC317-4131 | A - Responsibility | 24 - Govt responsibility | Recommendation 79 - An independent accountability and assurance mechanism for each state and territory | Each state and territory government should establish an independent accountability and assurance mechanism to promote continuous improvement and best practice in natural disaster arrangements. |
INQ317 | REC317-4053 | A - Responsibility | 24 - Govt responsibility | Recommendation 1 - Forum for Ministers | Australian, state and territory governments should restructure and reinvigorate ministerial forums with a view to enabling timely and informed strategic decision-making in respect of: |
INQ317 | REC317-4069 | A - Responsibility | 24 - Govt responsibility | Recommendation 17 - Interoperable communications for fire and emergency services across jurisdictions | State and territory governments should update and implement the National Framework to Improve Government Radio Communications Interoperability, or otherwise agree a new strategy, to achieve interoperable communications across jurisdictions. |
INQ317 | REC317-4101 | A - Responsibility | 24 - Govt responsibility | Recommendation 49 - National Air Quality Forecasting Capability | Australian, state and territory governments should develop national air quality forecasting capabilities, which include broad coverage of population centres and apply to smoke and other airborne pollutants, such as dust and pollen, to predict plume behaviour. |
INQ317 | REC317-4054 | A - Responsibility | 24 - Govt responsibility | Recommendation 2 - Establishment of an authoritative disaster advisory body | Australian, state and territory governments should establish an authoritative advisory body to consolidate advice on strategic policy and relevant operational considerations for ministers in relation to natural disasters. |
INQ317 | REC317-4056 | A - Responsibility | 24 - Govt responsibility | Recommendation 4 - Integrating disaster management of the Australian Government | Australian Government agencies should work together across all phases of disaster management. |
INQ317 | REC317-4074 | A - Responsibility | 25 - Inquiry, audit, lessons management and after action review | Recommendation 22 - Review of Defence Assistance to the Civil Community manual | The Australian Government should review the content of the Defence Assistance to the Civil Community manual to ensure consistency of language and application with a revised COMDISPLAN. |
INQ317 | REC317-4102 | A - Responsibility | 25 - Inquiry, audit, lessons management and after action review | Recommendation 50 - Australian Medical Assistance Teams | Australian, state and territory governments should review Australian Medical Assistance Team capabilities and procedures and develop necessary training, exercising and other arrangements to build capacity for domestic deployments. |
INQ317 | REC317-4114 | B - Preparedness | 1 - Land-use and building regs | Recommendation 62 | State, territory and local governments should be required to consider present and future natural disaster risk when making land-use planning decisions for new developments. |
INQ317 | REC317-4115 | B - Preparedness | 1 - Land-use and building regs | Recommendation 63 | The Australian Building Codes Board, working with other bodies as appropriate, should: |
INQ317 | REC317-4107 | B - Preparedness | 4 - Fire season preparation | Recommendation 55 - Public availability of fuel load management strategies | Public land managers should clearly convey and make available to the public their fuel load management strategies, including the rationale behind them, as well as report annually on the implementation and outcomes of those strategies. |
INQ317 | REC317-4108 | B - Preparedness | 4 - Fire season preparation | Recommendation 56 - Assessment and approval processes for vegetation management, bushfire mitigation and hazard reduction | Australian, state and territory governments should review the assessment and approval processes relating to vegetation management, bushfire mitigation and hazard reduction to: |
INQ317 | REC317-4087 | B - Preparedness | 4 - Fire season preparation | Recommendation 35 - Roadside vegetation management | State and territory governments, working with local governments and fire and emergency service agencies, should ensure that there are appropriate arrangements for roadside vegetation management that take into account, among other things: |
INQ317 | REC317-4082 | B - Preparedness | 10 - Infrastructure | Recommendation 30 - Collective awareness and mitigation of risks to critical infrastructure | The Australian Government, working with state and territory governments and critical infrastructure operators, should lead a process to: |
INQ317 | REC317-4083 | B - Preparedness | 10 - Infrastructure | Recommendation 31 - Improving coordination arrangements between critical infrastructure sectors and with government | The Australian Government should work with state and territory governments and critical infrastructure operators to improve information flows during and in response to natural disasters: |
INQ317 | REC317-4070 | B - Preparedness | 10 - Infrastructure | Recommendation 18 - Delivery of a Public Safety Mobile Broadband capability | Australian, state and territory governments should expedite the delivery of a Public Safety Mobile Broadband capability. |
INQ317 | REC317-4066 | C - Response | 2 - Emergency powers | Recommendation 14 - Make provision for a declaration of a state of emergency | The Australian Government should make provision, in legislation, for a declaration of a state of national emergency. The declaration should include the following components: |
INQ317 | REC317-4094 | C - Response | 8 - Communications and warnings | Recommendation 42 - Development and implementation of the Australian Fire Danger Rating System | State and territory governments should expedite the development and implementation of the Australian Fire Danger Rating System. It should ensure that there is national consistency in the visual display of the AFDRS and action to be taken in response to each rating. |
INQ317 | REC317-4096 | C - Response | 8 - Communications and warnings | Recommendation 44 - The Australian Warning System | State and territory governments should urgently deliver and implement thevall-hazard Australian Warning System. |
INQ317 | REC317-4098 | C - Response | 8 - Communications and warnings | Recommendation 46 - The development of national standards for mobile applications | The Australian Government should facilitate state and territory governments working together to develop minimum national standards of information to be included in bushfire warnings apps. |
INQ317 | REC317-4099 | C - Response | 8 - Communications and warnings | Recommendation 47 - Exploring the development of a national, all-hazard warning app | Australian, state and territory governments should continue to explore the feasibility of a national, all-hazard emergency warning app. |
INQ317 | REC317-4089 | C - Response | 11 - Evacuation and shelters | Recommendation 37 - Evacuation planning - Essential services and supplies | State and territory governments should ensure that those responsible for evacuation planning periodically review those plans, and update them where appropriate, including in relation to: |
INQ317 | REC317-4090 | C - Response | 11 - Evacuation and shelters | Recommendation 38 - Sheltering terminology should be made nationally consistent | State and territory governments should, as a priority, adopt nationally consistent terminology and functions for the different sheltering facilities, including evacuation centres, Neighbourhood Safer Places, places of last resort and natural disaster shelters. |
INQ317 | REC317-4091 | C - Response | 11 - Evacuation and shelters | Recommendation 39 - National community education | State and territory governments should provide further community education on the function and limitations of different sheltering facilities, including evacuation centres, Neighbourhood Safer Places, places of last resort and natural disaster shelters. |
INQ317 | REC317-4092 | C - Response | 11 - Evacuation and shelters | Recommendation 40 - Evacuation planning - Evacuation centres | State and territory governments should ensure those responsible for evacuation planning periodically review these plans, and update them where appropriate, to account for the existence and standard of any evacuation centres and safer places (however described) in the community, including: |
INQ317 | REC317-4093 | C - Response | 11 - Evacuation and shelters | Recommendation 41 - Evacuation planning - Planning for evacuations across boundaries | State and territory governments should ensure those responsible for evacuation planning periodically review those plans, and update where appropriate, to provide for coordination between states and territories in cross border areas and to provide cross-border access to evacuation centres. |
INQ317 | REC317-4088 | C - Response | 11 - Evacuation and shelters | Recommendation 36 - Evacuation planning - Evacuation routes and seasonal populations | State and territory governments should ensure that those responsible for evacuation planning periodically review those plans, and update them where appropriate, including in relation to: |
INQ317 | REC317-4080 | C - Response | 18 - Access to fire ground | Recommendation 28 - Comprehensive information | State and territory governments should include road closure and opening information on all roads within their borders on public apps. |
INQ317 | REC317-4081 | C - Response | 18 - Access to fire ground | Recommendation 29 - Provision of information | State and territory governments should provide information to the public on the closure and opening of roads. Information should be provided in real-time, or in advance based on predictions, where possible. |
INQ317 | REC317-4075 | D - Recovery | 6 - Insurance and legal liability | Recommendation 23 - Legal protections for Australian Defence Force members | The Australian Government should afford appropriate legal protections from civil and criminal liability to Australian Defence Force members when conducting activities under an authorisation to prepare for, respond to and recover from natural disasters. |
INQ317 | REC317-4124 | D - Recovery | 6 - Insurance and legal liability | Recommendation 72 - Review the thresholds and activation process for the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements | In reviewing the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements, Australian, state and territory governments should examine the small disaster criterion, and financial thresholds generally. |
INQ317 | REC317-4113 | D - Recovery | 6 - Insurance and legal liability | Recommendation 61 - Guidance for insurer-recognised retrofitting and mitigation | The insurance industry, as represented by the Insurance Council of Australia, working with state and territory governments and other relevant stakeholders, should produce and communicate to consumers clear guidance on individual-level natural hazard risk mitigation actions insurers will recognise |
INQ317 | REC317-4122 | D - Recovery | 33 - Relief and recovery | Recommendation 70 - Evaluation of financial assistance measures to support recovery | Australian, state and territory and local governments should evaluate the effectiveness of existing financial assistance measures to inform the development of a suite of pre-effective pre-determined recovery supports. |
INQ317 | REC317-4126 | D - Recovery | 33 - Relief and recovery | Recommendation 74 - Develop nationally consistent, pre-agreed recovery programs | Australian, state and territory governments should expedite the development of pre-agreed recovery programs, including those that address social needs, such as legal assistance domestic violence, and also environmental recovery. |
INQ317 | REC317-4127 | D - Recovery | 33 - Relief and recovery | Recommendation 75 - Better incorporate 'build back better' within the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements | Australian, state and territory governments should incorporate the principle of ‘build back better’ more broadly into the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements. |
INQ317 | REC317-4116 | D - Recovery | 33 - Relief and recovery | Recommendation 64 - Debris clean-up arrangements | Governments should create and publish standing policy guidance on whether they will or will not assist to clean-up debris, including contaminated debris, resulting from natural hazards. |
INQ317 | REC317-4117 | D - Recovery | 33 - Relief and recovery | Recommendation 65 - Arrangements for donated goods | State and territory governments should develop and implement efficient and effective arrangements to: |
INQ317 | REC317-4118 | D - Recovery | 33 - Relief and recovery | Recommendation 66 - Reform fundraising laws | Australian, state and territory governments should create a single national scheme for the regulation of charitable fundraising. |