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Bushfires

Government

Emergency Management Australia (EMA) is part of the National Security and Criminal Justice Group within the Attorney-General’s Department. EMA assists the States and Territories who have the major responsibility to protect life and property.

Attorney-General's Department - Emergency management in Australia.

Australian Capital Territory

• Australian Capital Territory Emergency Services Agency
• ACT Rural Fire Service

New South Wales

• Office for Emergency Services New South Wales
• NSW Rural Fire Service

Northern Territory

• Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Service
• Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Service

Queensland

• Emergency Management Queensland
• Queensland Fire and Rescue Services

South Australia

• South Australia State Emergency Service
• SA Country Fire Service

Tasmania

• State Emergency Service Tasmania
• Tasmania Fire Service

Victoria

• Victoria Department of Justice Emergency Services
• Country Fire Authority

Western Australia

• Fire & Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia

Key National Bodies

• Australasian Fire Authorities Council (AFAC) is the industry body for fire, emergency services and land management agencies in Australia and New Zealand.

• National Aerial Firefighting Centre (NAFC) co-ordinates and manages the acquisition and deployment of firefighting aircraft for the Commonwealth and the States and Territories of Australia.

Research in Australia

• Bushfire CRC

• CSIRO Bushfires

• Risk Frontiers, Natural Hazards Research Centre, Macquarie University - FireAUS

Recent Inquiries

• Senate Select Committee on Agricultural and Related Industries, Inquiry into Bushfires in Australia, and Report 13 August 2010.
• 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission and the Final Report
• Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Inquiry on Bushfire Mitigation and Management. The report and COAG's response released 24 January 2005.
• On Wednesday 5 November 2003, the House of Representatives Select Committee on the recent Australian bushfires tabled its report entitled A Nation Charred: Inquiry into the Recent Australian Bushfires. The committee tabled the report of its inquiry on Wednesday 5 November 2003. The Australian government presented its response to the report on Thursday 15 September 2005.
• ACT Coroner's Bushfire Enquiry - Under the provisions of the Coroners Act 1997, the ACT Coroner’s Court conducted an inquiry into the cause, origin and circumstances of the fires which destroyed and damaged property in January, 2003 and inquests into the deaths associated with those fires. The report was released in December 2006.
• ACT - The Inquiry into the Operational Response to the January 2003 Bushfires, headed by Mr Ron McLeod, 1 August 2003.
  

Key International Bodies

• International Association of Wildland Fire

• The Association for Fire Ecology

• United Nations Environment Programme, DEWA/GRID-Europe - Global wildfires - real-time information on current fires status and early warning.

• Current & archived significant global fire events and fire season summaries.
• FAO - Forests and fire

Other Countries

United States

• National Interagency Fire Center

Canada

• Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre

New Zealand

• National Rural Fire Authority
• Useful links for New Zealand.

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