Submissions
4
Professor Alan Rosen AO
8
Gippsland Emergency Relief Fund
9
National Enterprise for Rural Community Wellbeing
11
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
12
Northern Territory Government
13
Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences
21
Veterinary Oncology Consultants
22
Edmund Rice Centre, Sydney
23
Eurobodalla Shire Council
24
Professor Jason Sharples
26
National Women's Alliances
29
Durras Community Association NSW
31
Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission
32
Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC
33
Export Finance Australia
36
Emergency Leaders for Climate Action
37
Australian Child & Adolescent Trauma, Loss & Grief Network and Emerging Minds
39
Australian Medical Association
40
Climate Council of Australia
43
Consumer Action Law Centre
44
Russell Island Development Association Inc.
45
National Rural Health Alliance
46
Community Broadcasting Association of Australia
47
St Vincent de Paul Society
49
Community Industry Group
50
Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council
51
Maloneys Beach Residents Association
52
Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources
54
Foodbank Australia Ltd
56
Practical Justice Initiative UNSW
57
Institute of Foresters of Australia & Australian Forest Growers
59
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
61
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
62
Associate Professor Heather Cleland and WGCDR Michael Rudd OAM
63
RMIT University Centre for Urban Research
64
Alumnae of Homeward Bound
65
Nature Conservation Society of South Australia
66
Local Government Association of Queensland
67
Ginninderra Falls Association
68
Department of Home Affairs
69
Climate Justice Programme
70
Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
71
Volunteering Australia
72
Doctors for the Environment Australia
73
Ecological Society of Australia
76
Rural Doctors Association of Australia
77
The George Institute for Global Health
78
ACT Council of Social Service
79
National Insurance Brokers Association
81
The Law Society of NSW
84
Australian Communications Consumer Action Network
85
Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS)
87
Extinction Rebellion (XR) Grey Power Vic
88
Gecko Environment Council
89
Australian Psychological Society
91
Mental Health Australia
92
Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal
94
New South Wales Bar Association
96
Gippsland Apiarist Association
97
Australian National University
98
Dr Tamsin Clarke and Mr Phillip Clarke
99
Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals
103
Science & Technology Australia
104
United Firefighters Union
105
Ashleigh Best, Professor Christine Parker, Professor Lee Godden, Melbourne Law School
108
Australian Council of Social Service
109
Australian Banking Association
110
Insurance Australia Group (IAG)
111
Australian Academy of the Humanities
114
Bureau of Meteorology
115
Public Health Association of Australia
122
Australian Academy of Science
130
Community Legal Centres NSW
131
Australian Institute of Architects
132
Professor Brendon Coventry BMBS PhD FRACS FACS FRSM
133
Insurance Council of Australia
134
Allianz Australia Insurance Ltd
135
Government of Western Australia
137
Australian Paramedics Association (NSW)
144
Kangaroo Valley Community Bushfire Committee
150
Victorian Building Authority
151
Climate Change Authority
153
Coonawarra Farm Resort
155
Woodlands Rainforest Retreat
156
Canberra Business Chamber
157
Small Business Mentoring Service
158
Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman
159
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
160
Australian Local Government Association
161
The Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety
162
Independent Bushfire Group
163
Australian Business Volunteers
164
Farmers for Climate Action
167
Cobargo Bushfire Relief Centre
168
Catholic Social Services Australia
170
Social Justice Advocates of the Sapphire Coast
171
Cobargo Quaama Business Recovery Group
172
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
174
National Bushfire Recovery Agency
176
Law Institute of Victoria
180
Australian Taxation Office
181
Bilpin Region Advancement Group (BRAG)
186
Bushfire Building Council of Australia
187
Professor David Lindenmayer
190
Rural City of Wangaratta
192
Shoalcoast Community Legal Centre Inc.
Additional Information
1
Community Broadcasting Association of Australia– Opening statement delivered at public hearing Canberra, 12 August 2020.
2
Save the Children – Information regarding child participation arrangements in bushfire-affected communities, received 21 August 2020.
3
Foodbank Queensland – additional information regarding food storage infrastructure and future requirements, received 12 October 2020.
4
Professor Roberta Ryan - Excerpts from Reconnected: A community builder's handbook, which references Bellingen Shire's preparation with the community for the pandemic, received 10 August 2021
5
Professor Roberta Ryan - Evaluations of Post-disaster recovery - a paper by Professor Ryan, received 10 August 2021
6
Professor Roberta Ryan - Bellingen Shire's Local Government Partnerships Award submission, received 10 August 2021
7
Professor Roberta Ryan - Bellingen Shire Deliberative Panel on Building Community Resilience - Final Report by Professor Ryan, received 10 August 2021
8
Professor Roberta Ryan - Bellingen Shire Council's report on the Bushfire Recovery and Resilience Program, received 10 August 2021
Answer to Question on Notice
1
Answer to questions taken on notice on 27 May 2020 by Emergency Leaders for Climate Action. Answer received 27 May 2020.
2
Answers to questions taken on notice on 27 May 2020 by Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Answers received on 19 June 2020.
3
Answer to question taken on notice on 27 May 2020 by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Answer received from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment on 19 June 2020.
4
Answers to questions taken on notice on 27 May 2020 by Emergency Management Australia (Department of Home Affairs). Answers received on 19 June 2020.
5
Answers to questions taken on notice on 27 May 2020 by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Answers received on 28 July 2020.
6
Answers to questions taken on notice on 10 July 2020 by Allianz Australia Limited. Answers received on 07 August 2020.
7
Answers to questions taken on notice on 10 July 2020 by Insurance Australia Group. Answers received on 07 August 2020.
8
Answer to question taken on notice on 10 July 2020 by National Insurance Brokers Association. Answer received on 07 August 2020.
9
Answers to questions taken on notice on 10 July 2020 by QBE Insurance. Answers received on 07 August 2020.
10
Answers to questions taken on notice on 10 July 2020 by Suncorp. Answers received on 07 August 2020.
11
Answer to question taken on notice on 29 July 2020 by the Australian Academy of Science. Answer received on 17 August 2020.
12
Answer to question taken on notice on 30 July 2020 by the Australian Child & Adolescent Trauma, Loss & Grief Network. Answer received 21 August 2020.
13
Answer to question taken on notice on 30 July 2020, by Emerging Minds. Answer received 21 August 2020
14
Answer to a question taken on notice on 30 July 2020 by Foodbank Australia Ltd. Answer received on 21 August 2020.
15
Answers to questions taken on notice on 12 August 2020, by BAI Communications. Answers received 24 August 2020
16
Answers to questions taken on notice on 29 July 2020 by the Bureau of Meteorology. Answers received 27 August 2020
17
Answers to questions taken on notice on 12 August 2020 by the Department of Home Affairs. Answers received 31 August 2020
18
Answer to question taken on notice on 12 August 2020 by Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. Answer received 1 September 2020.
19
Answers to questions taken on notice on 12 August 2020 by Commercial Radio Australia. Answers received 31 August 2020.
20
Answers to questions taken on notice on 12 August 2020 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Answers received from the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications on 11 September 2020.
21
Answers to questions taken on notice on 10 July 2020 by the Insurance Council of Australia. Answers received 14 September 2020.
22
Answers to questions taken on notice on 12 August 2020 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Answers received from the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications on 29 September 2020
23
Answers to written questions on notice from Senator Rice on 14 September 2020, by the Bureau of Meteorology. Answers received 2 October 2020.
Answers to questions taken on notice on 27 May 2020 by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Answers received 19 October 2020.
25
Answer to a written question on notice from Senator Rice on 29 May 2020, from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Answer received 19 October 2020.
26
Answer to question taken on notice on 2 March 2021 by Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. Answer received 18 March 2021.
27
Answers to questions taken on notice on 27 July 2021 by the National Recovery and Resilience Agency. Answers received 10 August 2021.
Tabled Documents
1
Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC – ‘National research priorities for natural hazards emergency management: Issues, Priorities, Directions, May 2019’, tabled at public hearing Canberra, 27 May 2020
2
Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC – ‘A summary of workshop outputs supporting the statement on national research priorities for natural hazards emergency management: Issues, Priorities, Directions, May 2019’, tabled at public hearing Canberra, 27 May 2020.
3
Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC – 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 27 May 2020.
4
Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 27 May 2020.
5
Insurance Australia Group - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 10 July 2020.
6
Senator Tim Ayres, Chair – Victorian Building Authority ‘A guide to retrofit your home for better protection from a bushfire’, tabled at public hearing Canberra, 10 July 2020
7
National Insurance Brokers Association of Australia - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 10 July 2020.
8
QBE Australia Pacific - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 10 July 2020.
9
Allianz Australia Insurance Limited - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 10 July 2020.
10
Suncorp Australia Insurance Limited - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 10 July 2020.
11
Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 29 July 2020.
12
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 29 July 2020.
13
Professor Mark Howden - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 29 July 2020.
14
Professor Jason Sharples - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 29 July 2020.
15
ReachOut - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 29 July 2020.
16
Geoscience Australia - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 29 July 2020.
17
Australian Council of Social Service - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 30 July 2020.
18
Emerging Minds - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 30 July 2020.
19
Foodbank Australia Limited - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 30 July 2020.
20
Australian Child & Adolescent Trauma, Loss & Grief Network and Emerging
Minds - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 30 July 2020.
21
Save the Children - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 30 July 2020.
22
St Vincent de Paul Society - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 30 July 2020.
23
Australian Red Cross - 'Opening statement', tabled at public hearing Canberra, 30 July 2020.
24
Independent Bushfire Group – photos of Green Wattle Creek & Butcher Creek fires, and article titled Always the First – Greek M-18 Dromaders, Ridder.Aero, 24 June 2018, tabled at a public hearing in North Richmond, 28 April 2021
25
Independent Bushfire Group – report; Lessons from the Island: An independent review of the fires that burnt across Kangaroo Island during December 2019 – February 2020, November 2020, Government of South Australia, tabled at a public hearing in North Richmond, 28 April 2021
26
Megalong Valley Landowners (Mr Max Horn) – correspondence dated 5 April 2021 to Ms Susan Templeman MP, Federal Member for Macquarie regarding communications infrastructure, tabled at a public hearing in North Richmond, 28 April 2021
27
Professor Lindenmayer - 'Bushfire Recovery Project - Report No. 1', tabled at public hearing in Canberra, 27 July 2021.
28
Professor Lindenmayer - 'Bushfire Recovery Project - Report No. 2', tabled at public hearing in Canberra, 27 July 2021.
29
Professor Lindenmayer - 'Bushfire Recovery Project - Report No. 3', tabled at public hearing in Canberra, 27 July 2021.
30
Professor Lindenmayer - 'Bushfire Recovery Project - Report No. 4', tabled at public hearing in Canberra, 27 July 2021.
31
Professor Lindenmayer - 'Bushfire Recovery Project - Report No. 5', tabled at public hearing in Canberra, 27 July 2021.
32
Professor Lindenmayer - 'Conservation Letters - Forest thinning', tabled at public hearing in Canberra, 27 July 2021.
33
Professor Lindenmayer - 'Conservation Letters - Nonlinear effects of Stand Age', tabled at public hearing in Canberra, 27 July 2021.
34
Professor Lindenmayer - 'Empirical analyses of the factors influencing fire severity in south-eastern Australia', tabled at public hearing in Canberra, 27 July 2021.
35
Professor Lindenmayer - ‘Recent Australian wildfires made worse by logging and associated forest management’, tabled at public hearing in Canberra, 27 July 2021.
36
Professor Lindenmayer - ‘What are the associations between thinning and fire severity?’, tabled at public hearing in Canberra, 27 July 2021.
Government Response
1
Government Response – lessons to be learned in relation to bushfire season 2019-20 interim report.