The news: New Treasury analysis estimates that the immediate loss of economic activity from natural disasters in 2025 to date will be $2.2 billion. The context: The analysis includes the impact of ...

Australia's housing crisis has created a push for fast-tracked construction. Federal, state and territory governments have set a target of 1.2 million new homes over five years. Increasing housing ...

The senior bureaucrat tasked with Australia’s management of emergency situations says sending in Defence troops should not be the “first call” during natural disasters. During a media briefing ahead ...

In late 2019 and early 2020, a series of devastating wildfires, known as the “black summer” bushfire disaster, left Australia reeling: More than 20% of the country’s forests burned. As a scholar of ...

The Australian Government today handed over two rescue inflatable boats to the Disaster Management Centre (DMC), with disaster assessment drones for the National Building Research Institute (NBRI) to ...

The damage inflicted by ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred on Queensland and northern New South Wales has been extensive. Several areas have had infrastructure badly damaged, and many homes have been ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Floods and natural disasters that hit all but one Australian state and territory in 2022 cost the economy A$5 billion ($3.48 billion) and stoked inflation according to Treasury ...

In a disappointing move, Australia’s long-anticipated defense review rejects disaster response as a priority defense mission. For a military entity that operates in a geologically active, ...

Australian authorities declared a state of disaster on Saturday after bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in the country's southeast. Temperatures soared past 40C as a heat wave ...

Exactly 50 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1974, Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin and left a trail of devastation. It remains one of the most destructive natural events in Australia’s history. Wind speeds ...