Planning for natural disasters and dealing with their aftermath involve input from federal, state and local governments, emergency agencies, non-government organisations and affected communities. This paper focuses on the ‘black summer’ bushfire season of 2019-20 and major flooding in 2022 in New South Wales.

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the National Recovery and Resilience Agency's administration of the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA).

This report finds that increasing drone use in Australia presents a range of benefits for communities – particularly for regional areas, and in emergency relief and disaster management. The report also identifies a number of benefits, as well as challenges, facing drone uptake across the country.

The Bushfire Local Economic Recovery (BLER) program was created after the 2019–20 bushfires. It is co-funded by the Commonwealth and NSW governments. This audit assessed how effectively the Department of Regional NSW and Resilience NSW administered rounds one and two of the BLER program.

This report assesses the capacity-building assistance provided by Australian partners in disaster preparedness, response and recovery to other governments in the Indo-Pacific region. The evaluation found partners had established a sound foundation for emergency response capacity strengthening programs, which could continue to develop in a new phase.