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September

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Keeping Your Animals Safe in an Emergency (Blue Mountains)
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Keeping Your Animals Safe in an Emergency (Hawkesbury-Nepean region)
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Emergency warning messages: do colours and icons improve community readiness to act?
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Emergency warning messages: encouraging readiness to act
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Emergency warning messages: how do community members comprehend them?
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On the frontline: the roles of pharmacists in disasters
Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook: September - November 2020
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Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook: September - November 2020
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Enabling sustainable volunteering - leading volunteers young and old: research study
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2020 Dr Laurie Hammond Oration - Dr Alan Finkel, Chief Scientist of Australia
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Young volunteers needed for new mental health survey
The latest CRC research is available online now.
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New online - September 2020
A forum discussion at Queensland University of Technology for the International Day of Disaster Reduction.
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Let’s talk about reducing disaster risk
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Animal guides informed by research
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Ideas shared on France–Australia bushfire science
The community regulary hears about resilience through their local fire agency. Photo: Country Fire Authority
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Resilience research central to blueprint
Gondwana rainforest, New England National Park NSW. Photo: Tatters Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)
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PhD chance to assess temperate rainforest community resilience
Kangaroo Island estuary. Photo: Patrick Reis Santos
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New study is investigating how bushfires affect estuaries on Kangaroo Island
Dr Alan Finkel AO, Australia's Chief Scientist
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Natural hazards science is a sound investment for Australia: Chief Scientist
International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2020
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International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2020
Australian and French researchers sharing their findings at the workshop.
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International engagement – why does it matter?
Sarah Mizzi at Melbourne's International Women's Day event for emergency services in 2019.
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Returning to work from mat leave
Photo: Bigstock Photo Library
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Valuing each other - why diversity and inclusion matters
NSW RFS Schools Program. Photo: Ben Shepherd, NSW RFS
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More bushfires, less volcanoes: young Australians need to learn about more relevant disasters
Forest fire in Victoria. Photo: CFA.
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Effect of weather forecast errors on fire growth model projections
Hazard reduction burn in Victoria by CFA. Photo credit: Sarah Dickson-Hoyle.
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A Culture of Burning: Social-Ecological Memory, Social Learning and Adaptation in Australian Volunteer Fire Brigades
Savanna grasslands fire. Photo credit: Tina Holt, Bushfires NT.
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Seasonal fine fuel and coarse woody debris dynamics in north Australian savannas
Wind and rain hazards. Photo: Harald Richter.
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Impact-based forecasting for the coastal zone – East Coast Lows: annual report 2019-2020
Damage due to Cyclone Debbie. Photo: Cyclone Testing Station
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Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events: annual report 2019-2020
Approach to a field site in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Source: D Parnell.
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Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes for fuel reduction, carbon, water and vegetation outcomes: annual report 2019-2020
Victoria floods 2011
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Compound natural disasters in Australia: a historical analysis
Animal Evac NZ searching for wildlife at the request of the land owner Black Summer Fires 2020. Photo credit: Steve Glassey.
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Legal Complexities of Entry, Rescue, Seizure and Disposal of Disaster-Affected Companion Animals in New Zealand
Cover photo used with the permission of the Department of Fire and Emergency Services, Western Australia, Photographer: Evan Collis
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A handbook of wildfire engineering: guidance for wildfire suppression and resilient urban design
Lower estuary in Stun’Sail Boom and surrounding burnt dunes. Photo: Patrick Reis Santos
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Effects of the January 2020 bushfires on estuarine systems of Kangaroo Island: post event field data collection
Photo: Bigstock Photo Library
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Diversity and inclusion framework for emergency management policy and practice

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17 Jan
The Age
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The Sydney Morning Herald
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Bendigo Advertiser
Flood risk warning as region reflects on 2011 disaster
14 Jan
The Toorak Times
Asking people to prepare for fire is pointless if they can’t afford to do it. It’s time we subsidised fire prevention
12 Jan
About Regional
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12 Jan
The Conversation
Asking people to prepare for fire is pointless if they can’t afford to do it. It’s time we subsidised fire prevention
07 Jan
The Weather Channel
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Asia Pacific Fire
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Asia Pacific Fire
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04 Jan
ABC News
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04 Jan
ABC News
Country Fire Authority attracts more than 2,000 new volunteers following Black Summer fires
01 Jan
Stock & Land
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01 Jan
MSN News
One year on from horrific fires, Australians struggle to rebuild
30 Dec
National Geographic
One year on from horrific fires, Australians struggle to rebuild
22 Dec
The Age
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