Disasters
Alternative labels
Natural disasters
Strategy
Shaping our future: Geoscience Australia strategy 2026–2036
The strategy charts how applied geoscience will help Australia navigate complex national challenges and create benefits for generations to come. It outlines how integrated geoscience insights will be delivered across five key focus areas: resource potential; positioning and navigation services; earth analysis; national land, marine and coastal mapping; and hazards and impacts.
Report
Ripple effects: spatial injustice and the 2022 Victorian floods
This report presents a comprehensive quantitative analysis of spatial injustice – the unequal opportunities and resources that exist due to location – and the impacts of the 2022 Victorian floods. It highlights that more needs to be done to support those most impacted by disasters, and to address the risk that future emergencies will further...
Briefing paper
A climate disaster levy: fairly funding the increasing costs of climate change
Australians are suffering from climate disasters that are accelerating as climate change worsens. The extraction and use of fossil fuels is a key factor driving climate change and the resulting increasing costs of natural disasters. This paper proposes a levy on fossil fuel exports could make the fossil fuel industry pay for the harms it...
Report
Insurance catastrophe resilience report 2024–25
This report provides data on the cost of extreme weather over the past 12 months in Australia. It highlights policy recommendations that will help Australia adapt to climate risks including defending critical infrastructure, better land use planning and improving building resilience. It finds the gap between those with adequate insurance and those without is widening.
Assessment
Australia’s national climate risk assessment
The report provides a synthesis of key findings from Australis's first national climate risk assessment. It provides an assessment of risk across 8 key systems and 11 regions, prioritising key risks both within each system and across systems. This approach provides an understanding of who or what might be at risk across different areas of...