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Fed Govt funds disaster mitigation
More than $23 million on disaster modelling
THE FEDERAL Government has pledged more than $42.6 million over the next four years in this year’s budget for disaster mitigation and for further studies into risk management strategies.
Slightly in excess of $19 million will be given over the next 12 months to Emergency Management Australia to help states, territories and local governments prepare for disasters.
One of the biggest expenditures will be on advancing a pilot of disaster modelling software to a fully functioning system that will initially be used by the finance, energy and communications sectors to model the impact of possible threats.
By mid-2009, the government may allow other sectors to use the Critical Infrastructure Protection Modelling and Analysis (CIPMA) system.
More than $23 million will be spent on this over four years, with $15.2 million going to the Attorney-General’s Department, $7.4 million to the Department of Defence, and $800,000 to Geoscience Australia.
Further funding will also maintain the Trusted Information Sharing Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection, which was set up by the Howard Government early this decade to ensure close contact between government and industry representatives on key national infrastructure.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland said the funding program looks beyond disaster response towards “cost-effective, evidence-based disaster anticipation and mitigation”.
“This will include funding for projects involving structural works to protect against damage such as levees, retarding basins and channel improvements as well as funding permanent fire breaks and disaster warning systems. It will also provide funding for natural disaster risk management studies and strategies,” he said.
“After the devastating floods in NSW and Queensland earlier this year, and with the reality of climate change upon us, it is clear that the better we become at preparing for and mitigating against disasters, the less adverse impact they will have on Australian communities.”
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19 May 2008
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