A new Disaster Resilience plan to improve disaster mitigation emergency warnings and insurance coverage was endorsed by Australia’s police and emergency services ministers in Canberra in the light of the unprecedented number severity and scale of natural disaster events over summer.
The ministers directed Geoscience Australia to map the nation’s risk zones for riverine flooding flash floods storm surges and coastal inundation.
They agreed to change government programs to encourage betterment of infrastructure that is regularly damaged by natural disasters.
They also agrees to an insurance shake-up to remove disincentives to governments and individuals taking out private insurance cover.