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Sunday 3rd May 2015 - Pre-Conference Workshops
Half day workshops are available at an additional charge to both delegates and non-delegates. Book early to avoid disappointment as workshop places are limited.
1.00pm
Registration
1.30pm
1.30pm
3.00pm
Workshop 1
Workshop 2
Panel Presentation A
Room: Coolangatta 1
Room: Coolangatta 2
Room: Coolangatta 3
Start with the end in mind - strengthening
communities to enable a better outcome from
recovery not just to restore the status quo
Insights and Innovations Without Breaking the
Bank
Canterbury Earthquakes: Leading Through
Complexity
Mr Jason Reid, State Program Manager Community
Recovery, UnitingCare Community
Mr William Hurtes, Graduate Researcher, University
of Canterbury
Chair: Ms Michelle Mitchell, Deputy Chief Executive,
Social and Cultural Recovery, Canterbury Earthquake
Recovery Authority
Panel: Mr David Griffiths, GM, Housing Recovery,
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority
Ms Jane Morgan, GM, Social and Cultural Outcomes,
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority
Mr Ivan Iafeta, GM, Residential Red Zone, Canterbury
Earthquake Recovery Authority
3.00pm
3.30pm
3.30pm
5.00pm
Afternoon Tea
Workshop 3
Workshop 4
Panel Presentation B
Room: Coolangatta 1
Room: Coolangatta 2
Room: Coolangatta 3
Emergency Management – Managing Lessons
Learned to mitigate risk in future events.
Children and young people are a vulnerable
cohort in the wake of a disaster/emergency: A
strategic approach to building resilience and
coping skills
Elevating community resilience through GP
preparedness and response
Harold Wolpert, Chief Executive Officer, AVALIAS
Dr Vicki Trethowan, Crisis Counselling
Practitioner/Consultant, Crisis Counselling
Services
Ms Jane Nursey, Senior Clinical Specialist,
Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health
Chair: Ms Michelle Gonsalvez, Program Manager, Policy
and Practice Support, RACGP
Panel: A/Prof Glynn Kelly, GP and Chair of RACGP's
Disaster Network, RACGP
Mr Andy Wisheart, Business Development Manager,
Healthpoint ANZ
Monday 4th May 2015
8:00am
Registration
9:00am
Room: Southport Ballroom
Chair: Peter Sugg
Conference Opening
8.55am
9.00am
Peter Sugg, Conference Co-Chair
Lessons from the Past - Vision for the Future
9.00am
9.30am
Tony Pearce
Inspector-General for Emergency Management
Building Disaster Resilience in Australia and Worldwide
9.30am
10.00am
Samantha Chard
Assistant Secretary, Emergency Management Policy Branch Attorney-General's Department
Infrastructure Resilience - A practical approach that works
10.00am
Mr Clive Manley
10.30am
Civil Defence and Emergency Management Director, Auckland Council
Morning Tea
10.30am
11.00am
Exhibition Hall: Gold Coast & Surfers Paradise 1
Chair: Dr Michael Rumsewicz
11.00am
11.30am
11.30am
12.00pm
12.00pm
12.30pm
National AIIMS Certification Scheme
Mr Stuart Ellis
CEO, Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council
From bushfires to all-hazards research – a nation under threat
Dr Richard Thornton
Chief Executive Officer, Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC
Child and family disaster preparedness: Are we helping our most vulnerable when disaster strikes?
Professor Kevin Ronan
Director of Clinical Masters Training Program, School of Psychology, CQ University
12.30pm
1.30pm
Networking Lunch
1.00pm
1.30pm
Poster Sessions – See Poster Presentation for more details.
Exhibition Hall: Gold Coast & Surfers Paradise 1
The Chat Room
Room: Broadbeach 1
Open to the first 20 participants
Tony Pearce
Inspector-General for
Emergency Management
Samantha Chard
Assistant Secretary, Emergency
Management Policy Branch
Attorney-General's Department
Mr Clive Manley
Civil Defence and Emergency
Management Director, Auckland
Council
Mr Stuart Ellis
CEO, AFAC
Dr Richard Thornton
Chief Executive Officer, Bushfire
and Natural Hazards CRC
Each session
incl. 10 mins
Q&A
1.30pm
2.00pm
Recovery
Community Resilience
Risk Management
Room: Southport 1
Session Chair: Mrs Tracy
Hatton
Room: Southport 2
Session Chair: A/Prof Lynda
Cheshire
Room: Southport 3
Session Chair: Dr Krishna
Nadimpalli
Room: Surfers Paradise 3
Session Chair: Dr Richard
Thornton
Effective communication
during disasters: What
effects community decision
making & action?
Community Fire Units
response to Blue Mountains
bushfires 2013
The National Emergency
Risk Assessment Guidelines
(NERAG):The bumpy road to
national consistency
Council Collaborations - Is
this the new 'normal'
Dr Vivienne Ivory, Urban
Scientist, Opus Research
Mrs Samantha Colwell,
Manager Community Fire Unit,
Fire & Rescue NSW
Mr Edward Pikusa, Principal
Project Officer RAMMS, SA
Fire and Emergency Services
Commission
‘Miinder’ – Using Analytics
to Forecast Disaster
Mitigation, Preparation and
Response
Mr Richard Host, Chief
Information Officer, Fire &
Rescue NSW
Dr Stephen Smith, Macquarie
University
Mr Doug Caulfield, Principal
Consultant, Emergency
Management Network
Solutions
Local Government EM
capacity 'built from the
ground up'
Dr Paula Dootson, Queensland
University of Technology
Ms Amanda Gaskill, Regional
Relief and Recovery
Coordinator, NWMR
Collaboration / Nillumbik Shire
Council
Ms Tina Georgiev, Relief and
Recovery Coordinator, NWMR
Collaboration
Bridging the Chasm.
Connecting communities to
Municipal, Regional & State
plans through community
Emergency Management
Planning
Dr Ilona McNeill, Research
Fellow, University of Melbourne
Ms Kate Siebert, Executive
Officer Emergency
Management, Yarra Ranges
Council
Ms Catherine Nelsson,
Community Emergency
Planning Officer
Risk, Emergency & Community
Safety, Yarra Ranges Council
Ms Melanie Baker-Jones, PhD
Candidate, Queensland
University of Technology
Defining and measuring
community resilience: can it
be done?
Dr Deanne Bird, Research
Fellow, Risk Frontiers
3.05pm
3.30pm
Room: Surfers Paradise 2
Session Chair: Dale DomineyHowes
Bushfire and Natural
Hazards CRC –
Communication and
Warnings
Successful recovery from a
hazard event: What
businesses need to know
but are afraid to ask
2.02pm
2.32pm
2.34pm
3.04pm
Local Government
Initiatives
GIVIT; A World First: A
unique web based 'virtual
warehouse'• to efficiently
and effectively manage the
offers of assistance during
the recovery from a natural
disaster
'Be Ready Warrandyte'Living with Bushfire Risk
A brief review of Australian
surface mine coal fires and
their mitigation and control
Ms Juliette Wright,
Founder/CEO, GiVIT
Mr Richard Davies, President,
Warrandyte Community
Association Inc.
Mr Andrew Tegart, Director,
Deanmac Emergency Services
Pty Ltd
Afternoon Tea
Exhibition Hall: Gold Coast & Surfers Paradise 1
Preparing for fires and
floods: The role of different
information sources
Litigation Mitigation: A legal
risk assessment of social
media usage in Emergencies
Each session
incl. 10 mins
Q&A
3.30pm
4.00pm
4.02pm
4.32pm
Recovery
Community Resilience
Risk Management
Social Media
Panel Presentation
Room: Southport 1
Session Chair: Dr Vivienne
Ivory
The Three legged Stool: A
Practice Model for
Community Led Social
Recovery
Room: Southport 2
Session Chair: Lisa Cameron
de Vries
The “Station Risk Profile” –
Effectively engaging our ‘atrisk’ communities
Room: Southport 3
Session Chair: Jurg Schutz
Room: Surfers Paradise 2
Session Chair: Mr Anthony
Macvean
Social Media and Disaster
information: Lessons from
New Zealand
Surfers Paradise 3
Mr Simon Markham, Manager
Policy and Customer Service,
Waimakariri District Council
Mr Graeme Watson,
Community Safety
Coordinator, Fire and Rescue
NSW
Reforming human and social
recovery in Queensland
Dr Nicole Aimers, Postdoctoral
Research Fellow, Centre for
Design Innovation, Swinburne
University of Technology
The redi-portal: An
innovative Risk Evaluation
and Disaster Information.
Tool-box for Disaster
Managers in Queensland
Ms Sara Page, GeoNet Public
Information Specialist, GNS
Science
Chair: Dr Michael Rumsewicz,
Research Manager Bushfire
and Natural Hazards CRC
Improving Situational
Awareness for Emergency
Managers using Twitter
Panel: Mr Steve Grant,
Emergency Management
Assistant Commissioner,
Queensland Fire and
Emergency Services
Mr Phil Carney, Director,
Department of Communities,
Child Safety and Disability
Services
Mrs Annabelle Johnstone,
Senior Advisor (Community
Recovery), Department of
Communities, Child Safety and
Disability Services
Recovery, Resilience and
Preparedness – How to
engage a recovering
community, identify
priorities and initiate actions
to build resilience and
encourage preparedness
Mr Robert Preston, Principal
Strategy Officer, Public Safety
Business Agency/Queensland
Fire and Emergency Services
Mr Robert Power, Team
Leader, CSIRO
Mr Rob Webb, Queensland
Regional Director, Bureau of
Meteorology
Measuring community
wellbeing during the
Canterbury earthquake
recovery
Ms Jane Morgan, GM, Social
and Cultural Outcomes,
Canterbury Earthqauke
Recovery Authority
4.34pm
5.04pm
5.05pm
6:30pm
Landholder Recovery
Model
Disaster warnings and public
resistance: Why the effect of
repeated exposure needs to
be examined within the
emergency management
sector
The Brisbane Supercell
Storm of 2014 –
Communicating and
responding to rapid onset,
high risk, low frequency
severe weather events
Mr Brendan Moon,
Queensland Reconstruction
Authority
How a rapid risk assessment
can change your recovery
world - a practical example
from the Adelaide Hills
Sampson Flat bushfire
Cross platform data
gathering in the field: There
might be "an app for that",
but is it the best option
Ms Dale Preston, Qld State
Ms Susan Scarr, Community
Mr Wayne Buckman, Senior
Manager Preparedness &
Development Officer,
Advisor, Department of
Recovery , Australian Red
Bundaberg Regional Council
Environment, Land, Water and
cross
Planning
Optus Satellite Welcome Reception
Welcome Address: Brendan Sparks, Director of Satellite Marketing, Optus Satellite
Exhibition Hall: Gold Coast & Surfers Paradise 1
Mr Rick Draper, Principal
Advisor & Managing Director,
Amtac Professional Services
Pty Ltd
Mr Jason Cameron, Disaster
Management Office, Brisbane
City Council (TBC)
Queensland Police Service –
Speaker TBC
Tuesday 5th May 2015
8:30am
9:00am
Each session
incl. 10 mins
Q&A
9.00am
9.30am
9.32am
10.02am
10.04am
10.34am
Registration
Resilience in Infrastructure
Room: Southport 1
Session Chair: Matthew
McLaren
Building it back better to
reduce risks after multiple
disaster events
Room: Southport 2
Session Chair: Christian
Vecchiola
Queensland: Setting the
standard for disaster
management
At Risk Groups
New Technology
Open Topic
Room: Southport 3
Session Chair: Mr Matt
Dorfstaetter
Room: Surfers Paradise 2
Session Chair: Ms Liz
Buchanan
Room: Surfers Paradise 3
Session Chair: Brett Aimers
Failure to Engage:
Emergency Evacuation
Planning for Vulnerable
People
Latest advances in
evacuation planning
Paying Out After a Natural
Disaster: The Earthquake
Commission, Private
Insurance and Red-Zone
Payouts after the Canterbury
(New Zealand) Earthquakes
Prof Elizabeth Toomey,
Professor in Law, University of
Canterbury, New Zealand
Mr Henry Holderness, Lecturer,
University of Canterbury
The influence of
organisational culture on
learning lessons:
Implementing a Lessons
Management Life Cycle
Mr Frankie Carroll, Chief
Executive Officer, Queensland
Reconstruction Authority
Mr Iain MacKenzie, InspectorGeneral, Office of the
Inspector-General Emergency
Management
Mr Don Garlick, Manager:
Emergency Management,
Ballarat Health Services
Ms Caroline Even, Research
Assistant, NICTA
Building Engineering
Resilience into Critical
Infrastructure. How Resilient
are your assets?
Expanding the EWS: A case
study of general system
resilience from within
ASEAN
Safeguarding Vulnerable
Seniors - Are we doing
enough?
Spark: an open model for
bushfire spread prediction
Mr Allen Fleckner, Principal and
Asset and Operations Group
Lead, Advisian
Mr Jack Thomson, Research
Associate, Institute for
Sustainable Futures, University
of Technology, Sydney
Sharing information in
disasters - enabling a
common view and
understanding
Mr John Stalker, Program
Coordinator, Council on the
Ageing
Dr Mahesh Prakash, Group
Leader, CSIRO
The Maori Dimension of
Disaster Risk Reduction:
What we Learnt from Rapaki
A System of Systems
Dashboard for Disaster
Management
Mr Mike Shapland, Director,
Interoperability and Innovation,
Office of the Inspector-General
Emergency Management
Ms Maire Kipa, Researcher,
Seaview Resilience Centre,
New Zealand
Mr Ryan Fraser, Research
Manager, CSIRO
Ergon Energy's Cyclone Area
Reliability Enhancement
(CARE) Program: Disaster
Risk Reduction in Action
Mr Chris Quin, Project Sponsor,
Ergon Energy
10.35am
11.00am
Innovation in Emergency
& Disaster Managment
Morning Tea
Exhibition Hall: Gold Coast & Surfers Paradise 1
Miss Lisa Jackson, Standards
and Review Support Officer,
Emergency Management
Victoria
The next level in first
response and rescue training
Mr Jimmy Christiansen,
Managing Director, Live
Training Professionals
Each
session incl.
10 mins Q&A
Open Topic
11.00am
11.30am
Telstra Emergency Network
Equipment and Emergency
Service Liaison Officers
(ESLO's)
Room: Southport 1
Session Chair: Chris Austin
Mr Rod Young, National
Emergency Response
Manager, Telstra
Innovation in Emergency
& Disaster Managment
Room: Southport 2
Session Chair: Jens
Oppermann
Assess Report and Map MFB's State-wide Impact
Assessment Capability
Mr Jason Catlin, Manager,
NGIS
Mr Colin Sampson, Leading
Fire Fighter, Metropolitan Fire
and Emergency Services
Board
Mental Health Outcomes
Room: Southport 3
Session Chair: Amelia
McLarnon
Animals: emergencies
and disasters
Adaptive approaches to
disaster response and
recovery viewed through a
psychosocial lens: Sydney
Siege Case Study
Animal Emergency
Management: Response and
Recovery Experience and
lessons from the Sampson
Flat Fire, South Australia,
January 2015
Ms Jessie Huard, Coordinator,
Recovery NSW/ ACT,
Australian Red Cross
Ms Rachel Nibbs, Director,
Response and Recovery,
Ministry of Police and
Emergency Services
A Disaster is NOT a Critical
Incident (psychologically
speaking)
Dr Rachel Westcott,
Veterinarian,
SAVEM/UWS/BNHCRC
Use of a Monte Carlo
framework for Emergency
Management
Mr Mark Babister, Managing
Director, WMA WATER
Ms Barb Gonda, Manager
Operations Support, Qld Fire
and Emergency Services
Ms Megan McCarthy,
Associate Research Fellow,
Centre for Health Research,
University of Western Sydney
12.04pm
12.34pm
Mrs Rowena Richardson,
Director EM Standards, Best
Practice & Evaluation, Office of
the Inspector-General
Emergency Management
Wildfire-Specific Respiratory
Protection
Streamlining exposure
information: NEXIS
Exposure Report for
effective decision-making
Building an inclusive
collaborative model of early
intervention and support in
relief and recovery
Dr Jurg Schutz, Research
Scientist, CSIRO
Ms Lauren Power, Team
Leader, Built Environment &
Exposure Section, Geoscience
Australia
Mr Stuart Stuart, State
Manager, Victorian Council of
Churches
Exploring the Psychological
Sequelae of Pet and
Livestock Loss following a
Natural Disaster: 18 months
after the 2013 Queensland
Floods
Ms Shuron Billman,
Psychologist, Charles Sturt
University
1.00pm
1.30pm
Poster Sessions – See Poster Presentation for more details.
Exhibition Hall: Gold Coast & Surfers Paradise 1
Improving the Business of
Disaster Management
Chair: Mr Mark Wallace, Public
Safety Manager, Esri Australia
Panel: Iain Mackenzie,
Inspector General Emergency
Management, Queensland
Government
Mark Crosweller, Director
General, Emergency
Management Australia
Measuring emergency
management effectiveness
Networking Lunch
Room: Surfers Paradise 3
Room: Surfers Paradise 2
Session Chair: Greg Eustace
11.32am
12.02pm
12.35pm
1.30pm
Panel Presentation
Stakeholder perspectives on
the management of animals
and their owners in
disasters
Tracey Allen, Acting Deputy
Chief Officer, ACT SES
Cr David Batt, Deputy Mayor,
Bundaberg Regional Council
Each
session incl.
10 mins Q&A
Leadership in Disasters
Open Topic
Room: Southport 1
Session Chair: Monique Blason
1.30pm
2.00pm
Public Safety Leadership Shaping a bowling ball with
sharp edges
Room: Southport 2
Session Chair: Dale DomineyHowes
A Framework for Natural
Disaster Mitigation Decision
Making
2.02pm
2.32pm
2.34pm
3.04pm
Environmental and
Weather Factors
Volunteers: engagement,
training and support
Room: Southport 3
Session Chair: Mr Nathan Fife
Updated climate change
projections for Australia
Room: Surfers Paradise 2
Session Chair: Steve Jenkins
Building the Next
Generation of Emergency
Service Volunteers
Mr Kevin Hennessy, Group
Leader: Climate variability,
extreme weather and
adaptation, CSIRO
Extreme Temperatures: The
Hidden Killer, Heatwave
Ms Jennie Schoof, State
Manager Emergency Service
Cadet Program Queensland,
PCYC
The only sustainable future
is we do things together
Mr Andrew Singh, Director
Business Development,
Australian Institute of Police
Management
What do we do to enable our
most junior members to
lead?
Dr Rob van den Hionert,
Deputy Director, Risk Frontiers
Mr Matthew Heysmand,
Detecive Inspector, NSW
Police Force
A/Prof Lisa Gibbs, Deputy
Director, Jack Brockhoff Child
Health & Wellbeing Program,
University of Melbourne
Food Safety, Training &
Logistics In Emergency
Situations
Mr Paul Hargreaves,
Emergency Management
Inspector, Victoria Police
Mr Peter Gould, Acting Local
Controller - Redland Unit, Qld
State Emergency Service
Bureau of Meteorology
Support for Disaster and
Emergency Management
Youth and Emergency
Services: Why investing in
today pays off tomorrow
Andrew Church, Food Safety
Training Manager, Emergency
Management Catering
Services
Mr Alasdair Hainsworth,
Assistant Director Hazard
Prediction, Bureau of
Meteorology
Miss Tia Rowley, Volunteer
Senior Field Member,
Queensland State Emergency
Service
"Who's In Charge" - The best
person for the job should be
doing the job
Mr Darren Stevenson,
Managing Partner, Emergency
Planning Solutions
Social ties matter:
experiencing and recovering
from bushfires
Panel Presentation
Room: Surfers Paradise 3
Perspectives on Resilience: A
case study of the 2011
Brisbane Floods
Chair: Dr Rebecca Wickes,
School of Social Science, UQ
Panel: A/Prof Lynda Cheshire,
School of Social Science, UQ
A/Prof Jonathan Corcoran,
School of Geography, Planning
& Environmental Management,
UQ
Dr Peter Walters, School of
Social Science, UQ
Dr Melanie Taylor, Centre for
Health Research, UWS
Ms Renee Zahnow, School of
Social Science, UQ
Mr Anthony Kimpton, School of
Geography, Planning &
Environmental Management,
UQ
Afternoon Tea
3.04pm
3.30pm
Exhibition Hall: Gold Coast & Surfers Paradise 1
Room: Southport Ballroom
Chair: A/Prof Brett Aimers
Tropical Cyclone Oswald – A Record of Recovery
3.30pm
4.00pm
Deputy Commissioner Brett Pointing APM
Regional Operations, Queensland Police Service
Leadership and Collaboration in Disaster Recovery: Lessons Learnt from Canterbury
4.00pm
4.30pm
4.30pm
5.00pm
5.00pm
5.10pm
5.10pm
6.10pm
Ms Elizabeth McNaughton
General Manager of Strategy and Government Relations, New Zealand Red Cross
Mr Duncan Gibb
Executive General Manager - Group Strategic Projects, Fulton Hogan
The role of insurance in community disaster recovery
Mr Campbell Fuller
General Manager Communications & Media Relations, Insurance Council Australia
Conference Close and Award Ceremony – Sponsored by Toll Remote Logistics
Address: Elle Hilton, General Manager, Toll Remote Logistics
Award Presentation: Most valuable contribution to the educational program
Exhibitor Passport Prize Draw
Aspen Medical Closing Drinks Function
Welcome Address: Andrew Parnell, Business Development National Manager, Aspen Medical
Conference Foyer
The Chat Room
Room: Broadbeach 1
Open to the first 20 participants
Deputy Commissioner Brett
Pointing APM
Regional Operations,
Queensland Police Service
Elizabeth McNaughton, New
Zealand Red Cross
Mr Duncan Gibb, Fulton Hogan
Poster Presentations
Poster presentations will be on display for the duration of the conference in the Foyer. During the dedicated lunch time poster session, presenters will be at their poster to discuss their
work and answer any questions.
A brief review of Australian surface mine coal fires and their mitigation and control
Mr Andrew Tegart, Director, Deanmac Emergency Services Pty Ltd
Accurate location identification for emergency response: Leveraging multipurpose unique identifiers
Mr Rick Draper, Principal Advisor & Managing Director, Amtac Professional Services Pty Ltd
Australian landslide deaths and injuries, 2012-2014
Dr Marion Leiba, Disaster Risk Scientist, ML Consulting
Cell Broadcast-SMS for public protection & disaster recovery introduction
Mr Yonadav Meizler, IT Director, Innovative Methods (Queensland)
Climate Change risk perception and adaptive risk governance: A case study in Shanghai, China
Dr Maoline Liao, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Science
Dr Bixia Xu, Urban Research Program, Griffith University
Community Resilience: initiatives, engagement and recovery
Mr Heath Langdon, Team Leader CFU Program, Fire & Rescue NSW
Creating resilience in chaos
Mrs Lisa Cameron de Vries, Technical Director, Phoenix Resilience
Defining Success in Emergency Management
Mr William Hurtes, Graduate Researcher, University of Canterbury
Disaster nursing roles and core competencies: A pilot study using exploratory factor analysis
Mr Abdulellah Al Thobaity, PhD Candidate, School of Nursing and Midwifery Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University
Emergency Service Volunteers: How to Get Them and Keep Them
Ms Sally Steward, Author, Volunteer, Speaker/Trainer, Leadership Emergency Services
Exposure Information Modelling Framework: A Path to Disaster Risk Reduction
Dr Krishna Nadimpalli, Research Team Leader, Geoscience Australia
Flash flooding and remediation attempts, Allchin Circuit, Kambah, Canberra, ACT
Dr Marion Leiba, Disaster Risk Scientist, ML Consulting
Framework of supporting foreigners as preparing for earthquake in Japan
Mr Yusuke Yamazaki, Student, Waseda University, Japan
General Nurses willingness to practice during a disaster in Japan
Ms Kanae Seki, Student , Monash University
Indigenous Resilience and Training Initiative
Ms Lee Hammond, Community Recovery Officer, Bundaberg Regional Council
Integrated Culture Sustainability and Resilience
Ms Amelia McLarnon, Senior Health Consultant & Credentialed Mental Health Nurse, McLarnon & Associates
Integrating Predictive Analytics for Risk into the Enterprise: Challenges and Lessons Learnt in the Emergency Management Domain
Dr Christian Vecchiola, Research Scientist, IBM Research - Australia
International aid for disasters in the Pacific: network structure, performance and limits. Case Study of Vanuatu
Miss Astrid Vachette, Student, Centre for Disaster Studies, James Cook University
Natural disasters and urbanisation – a comparison of developed and developing nations
Mr Matthew McLaren, Researcher, University of New South Wales
Nature abhors a vacuum & finds human rule inadequate
Mr Neville Garnham, Director, Today4Tomorrow Group Pty Ltd
Preferred Emergency Sheltering Practices in Australia
Ms Eleanor Carter, Emergency Services Regional Coordinator SQ, Australian Red Cross
Smartphone Application and Management System for Disaster Resistant Community
Prof Hsin-yu Shan, Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Stress during the rebuilding phase influenced mental health following two Queensland flood disasters
Mrs Kelly Dixon, PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology
Vicarious Trauma: Managing the Inevitable
Ms Carol Gutierrez, Rape & Domestic Violence Services Australia
All-Hazard Emergency Risk Assessments: Incorporating Contemporary Emergency Management Concepts for Improved Outcomes
Mr Matt Dorfstaetter, Senior Risk and Planning Officer, Emergency Management Victoria, Department of Justice
What does innovation in Emergency Management look like?
Mr Daniel Pridham, Firefighter, FRNSW / NSW SES
Wildfire-Specific Respiratory Protection
Dr Jurg Schutz, Research Scientist, CSIRO