An Albanese Labor Government will improve Australia\u2019s disaster readiness by investing up to $200 million per year on disaster prevention and resilience.
\nThousands of Australians who face bushfires, floods and cyclones every year deserve to be protected by a Federal Government who plans ahead and invests to keep them safe.
\nLabor\u2019s Disaster Ready Fund will curb the devastating impacts of natural disasters by investing in important disaster prevention projects like flood levees, sea walls, cyclone shelters, evacuation centres, fire breaks and telecommunications improvements.
\nThese investments will literally save lives, not to mention the taxpayers\u2019 funds that have to be spent on recovery and repairs when disasters hit.
\nAustralians are renowned as the best disaster responders in the world. They deserve to be backed by a government that looks forward, plans and prevents the worst.
\nInstead, the Morrison Government continues to sit on a $4.7 billion Emergency Response Fund that has done nothing to help.
\nThree years after it was announced, the ERF has not spent a cent on disaster recovery and has not completed a single disaster prevention project. The only thing it has done is earn the Government over $750 million in investment returns.
\nLabor will revamp the failed ERF so that it spends up to $200 million per year for disaster prevention and resilience.
\nIf matched by State, Territory or local governments, it would provide up to $400 million annually for investment in disaster prevention and resilience – something called for by groups as broad as the Government\u2019s own Productivity Commission, insurers, local governments and disaster relief bodies.
\nLabor\u2019s Plan for Disaster Readiness will also:<\/p>\n
As with COVID-19, the Morrison Government\u2019s failure to plan and prepare for natural disasters has left Australians vulnerable.
\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be this way. We know weather events are on the horizon \u2013 we have the smarts and the resources to prepare and prevent. We just need a government with a plan.
\nOnly an Albanese Labor Government will keep Australians safe and communities strong in the face of natural disasters.
\nOnly Labor will build a better future for disaster prone communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An Albanese Labor Government will improve Australia\u2019s disaster readiness by investing up to $200 million per year on disaster prevention and resilience. Thousands of Australians who face bushfires, floods and cyclones every year deserve to be protected by a Federal Government who plans ahead and invests to keep them safe. Labor\u2019s Disaster Ready Fund will … Continue reading “Prevent, Prepare, Rebuild: Labor's plan for Disaster Readiness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}