reception, personal support…) (WA) A7 Hazard descriptors. Terms like Australia’ and ‘disaster-ready Australia’ – are the meaning of those terms different and/or consistently referred to across all jurisdictions? (Tas) A7 See above: Proposing ‘disaster resilient Australia’. B. Arrangements B1 Include reference to national plans and departments eg CCC, EMA IDETF and role they have in EM (WA) B1 and B2 Seeking advice from Home Affairs. B2 Explain Australian Government Crisis Management Framework is and how it relates to this document (WA) B1 and B2 Seeking advice from Home Affairs.
Interagency Governmental Agreement for SAR, as well as legislated obligations, e.g. under the International Law of the Sea, also jurisdictional agreements (WA) and defence (Tas) ‘dating’. Proposal to reference sub plans more generally. B11 Some disasters may need national coordination from the outset. For example a global fuel / gas supply disruption, Terrorism threat or human pandemic that is yet to reach Australia (i.e. the 2009 Swine Flu example). (WA) B11 Accepted. B12 Citizens as 1st responders (WA) (RC) B12 Included this in this draft. B13 Section 1.1 to provide a high-level overview of the risks and impacts of hazards and to outline the structures etc. I am not sure we have achieved that. We probably need to add some B13 This would lead to a lot more detail that would quickly date as state/territory arrangements are updated and changed. It is proposed to simply
titles change very frequently. This level of detail would be in specific hazard management and state/territory plans. B15 Figure 2 update B15 Might be beneficial to add to table label that intensity refers to National significance (WA) Noted. In Figure 2, should be Minister and Premiers/Chief Ministers (capital letters). Noted. Table will be updated separately (it is a pdf insertion). There’s no inclusion of the word ‘coordination’ in addition to command and control. (Tas) Accepted. Include coordination. Environment is missing from top left column under ‘impact’. In section 7 further on – environment is included.(EMA) Accepted. Include environment.
B16 This should also include recovery, e.g. managed by local resources, through state support, with minimal fed support, to fed support etc (RC) B16 Accepted. Included in Section 2.3. B17 once the review of NDRRA, funding arrangements should be updated (Tas) B17 Checking latest arrangements of the NDRRA with Home Affairs. B18 Definitely a greater focus on public information (timeliness, consistent messaging, single source of truth etc) and lessons management (operational lessons and exercises). (Tas) B18 Accepted. B19 Lessons management for example is currently on the national agenda with a common vision to all jurisdictions learning from operations (and exercises) and implementing improvements/changes B19 ‘Lessons Management’ is referenced in the draft.
E1 All hazards? Suggest that the following hazard descriptors be useful to consider: natural/environmental hazards; technical/technological hazards; behavioural hazards (would cover criminal activity and remove the concept of intent from ‘intentional violence’ for instance). (Tas) E1 ‘All Hazards’ would be a new (albeit oft used) doctrine. Need advice from the and Home Affairs on how strongly ‘All Hazards” should be referenced. Also, using the term ‘hostile act’ which covers terrorism and other violent acts that result in an emergency/disaster. E2 Include terrorism (WA) E2 See E1 above. E3 Hazard descriptor/s be better defined, or a conversation commenced at least about contemporary or appropriate hazard descriptors. In the (current) review of the Tasmanian EM arrangements, we will likely use the following hazard descriptors: hazards; E3 Noted. If the Handbook went down this path it would be a doctrinal change and would need endorsement by jurisdictions and ANZEMC. G
H3 Or other guiding legislation (e.g. EM Act in WA establishes responsibilities on LG for EM planning not linked to powers.) (WA) H3 Noted. See earlier comments. If state/territory legislation was included, then that would add significant volume and may time base the comments. H4 Perhaps add a dot point re awareness of elements within the community relevant to emergency response, e.g. CaLD, vulnerable people, etc. (WA) H4 Accepted. H5 Emergency warnings are not a LG responsibility in WA. Suggest change to assist with? (WA) H5 Accepted. I 2.4.2 State Govt I1 Consider adding compliance and assurance monitoring and State Level Risk assessment as contemporary examples. (Tas) I1 Accepted.