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Consultation has concluded
Building a community resilience plan is essential to providing the best possible outcomes and support - during and after disasters. QPRC is facilitating community consultations to begin a community-owned resilience plan. The aim of the plan is to ensure our community is more prepared for future disasters and able recover from events faster.
Initial community meetings were held in Braidwood, Nerriga, Araluen, Gundillion and Majors Creek. In these workshops community members talked about what worked well and what was challenging during and after the fires as well as what a good resilience plan looks like. Their responses provided key areas of strength or room for improvement.
These key areas or parts form the basis for the Community Resilience Plan. We've provided a brief summary about what we heard from the community at our initial meeting. You can have a look and then have your say below.
This is one person's perspective . . .
Water as a resource ran out during a HUGE drought. Next came the fires from hell, raging for months, striking from all directions. Destruction on a scale never experienced before, wreaked havoc on the people and the environment that normally sustains us. Shelter was in short supply. 2 BRW was a lifeline literally. Like a set of waves swamping us, floods, arrived as a deluge doused the flames and filled dams and rivers with debris and washed away denuded country. Then hot on the heels of drought, fire and flood came the ultimate existential threat of the COVID-19 pandemic – still with us For those still alive, the lessons have been tough. Resilience, courage, community, brainpower, creativity, and heart are needed in buckets. If we are to survive, learn the lessons and tell the tales……… LOTS HAS TO CHANGE Respect for country Communication at all levels must improve Work, work, work
Building a community resilience plan is essential to providing the best possible outcomes and support - during and after disasters. QPRC is facilitating community consultations to begin a community-owned resilience plan. The aim of the plan is to ensure our community is more prepared for future disasters and able recover from events faster.
Initial community meetings were held in Braidwood, Nerriga, Araluen, Gundillion and Majors Creek. In these workshops community members talked about what worked well and what was challenging during and after the fires as well as what a good resilience plan looks like. Their responses provided key areas of strength or room for improvement.
These key areas or parts form the basis for the Community Resilience Plan. We've provided a brief summary about what we heard from the community at our initial meeting. You can have a look and then have your say below.
This is one person's perspective . . .
Water as a resource ran out during a HUGE drought. Next came the fires from hell, raging for months, striking from all directions. Destruction on a scale never experienced before, wreaked havoc on the people and the environment that normally sustains us. Shelter was in short supply. 2 BRW was a lifeline literally. Like a set of waves swamping us, floods, arrived as a deluge doused the flames and filled dams and rivers with debris and washed away denuded country. Then hot on the heels of drought, fire and flood came the ultimate existential threat of the COVID-19 pandemic – still with us For those still alive, the lessons have been tough. Resilience, courage, community, brainpower, creativity, and heart are needed in buckets. If we are to survive, learn the lessons and tell the tales……… LOTS HAS TO CHANGE Respect for country Communication at all levels must improve Work, work, work
