BUILDING CAPACITY IN NORTH AUSTRALIAN REMOTE COMMUNITIES Utilisation project report – November 2020

lack of membership to SES, Water Police etc however those on the ground are first to be approached in emergency response) At the end of the day, Miriam Nuttell from NTES and Otto Campion from the Arafura Swamp Rangers Aboriginal Corporation (Arnhem Land, NT) presented the contrasting networks, outlining the government and community governance and planning arrangements related to EM. [...] These stages are often referred to as PPRR: • Prevention/mitigation activities, which seek to eliminate or reduce the impact of hazards themselves and/or to reduce the susceptibility and increase the resilience of the community subject to the impact of those hazards. [...] The Act provides for the adoption of measures necessary for the protection and preservation of human life and property from the effects of emergency and disaster events. [...] 672.2021 RELATED ACHIEVEMENTS REPORT TO WA NATIONAL DISASTER RESILIENCE PROGRAM This report was a summary of the findings of surveys and interviews with key personnel in WA DFES, local council, the police and the Kimberley Land Council involved in the development of EM capacity in Indigenous Ranger groups in the Kimberley, namely Bidyadanga and Beagle Gulf: DFES undertook an 8-year program to deve. [...] The intention of the research was to document the approaches taken to develop the current fire management capacity in these communities to then communicate a model to implement in remote, predominantly Indigenous, communities in other parts of the country and perhaps elsewhere.