Acknowledgements

Infrastructure Australia is aware of the vast amount of work being undertaken in relation to sustainability and resilience. Australian governments and organisations have developed legislation, policy, recommendations and research that are relevant to the reforms highlighted in this chapter. Government and private sector organisations are also advancing efforts to embed resilience across all types of risk.

The following initiatives and work have been valuable inputs to the reforms proposed in this chapter:

•  Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience: Disaster Risk Handbook19

•  CSIRO report on Climate and Disaster Resilience20

•  Australian Business Roundtable for Disaster Resilience and Safer Communities: Resilience Valuation Initiative21

•  The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction: The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-203022

•  National Resilience Taskforce and Department of Home Affairs: National Disaster Risk Reduction Framework23

•  NSW Treasury and Infrastructure NSW: Guidelines for Resilience in Infrastructure Planning: Natural Hazards.24

In particular, the reforms are informed by the findings of The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements Report.25