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Emergency Leaders for Climate Action THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S inaction on climate change undermines the role of its new National Recovery and Resilience Agency, according to former fire and emergency chiefs. “While formation of the new agency is welcomed and is something we called for, the government is undermining disaster recovery and relief and community resilience efforts through its refusal to realistically tackle greenhouse gas emissions, the root cause of worsening extreme weather,” said Greg Mullins, former Commissioner of Fire & Rescue NSW and founder of Emergency Leaders for C...

Shane Stone to lead new National Recovery and Resilience Agency By Shannon Jenkins Wednesday May 5, 2021 Scott Morrisson and Shane Stone in 2019. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) The government will establish a National Recovery and Resilience Agency and an Australian Climate Service to help Australia better prepare for natural disasters and adapt to the changing climate. Former Northern Territory chief minister Shane Stone has been appointed as coordinator-general of the agency, which will combine the former National Drought and North Queensland Flood Response and Recovery Agency and the National B...

A new Australian Climate Service will be established to guide the national recovery agency as it looks at ways to make the country more resilient to future natural disasters.

In the six months before the last federal election, the government awarded more than $630m worth of grants from programs like the better regions fund, which faced significant criticism for its distribution of cash to Coalition electorates. Ahead of what is shaping up to be a big-spending budget, with initiatives in mental health, aged care, and childcare, the Reserve Bank of Australia revised its economic growth projections upwards on Tuesday. The central bank is now predicting the Australian economy will grow by 4.75% in 2021 and 3.5% in 2022. The reserve bank cited a pickup in business inve...

The government has rolled out more than $1.2 billion on three separate measures, including $600 million to establish an agency to co-ordinate disaster relief.