House Standing Committee on Regional Development, Infrastructure and Transport - Launceston, TAS (part 2 of 2)
24 August 2026
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House Standing Committee on Regional Development, Infrastructure and Transport Australian Parliament
00:00 - 00:39
Speaker 21
So no, given the coastal issue that you just mentioned and also our extreme bushfire risk. We have received disaster ready funding in the past, but we could always do with more. And I think it's that whole being asked to do more with less kind of mentality, particularly in the climate change space. So I would encourage a greater share to the capital cities and the ones that do have that extreme bushfire risk and the adaptation, but we have been successful in funding and it has been that, you know, the mitigation measures as opposed to the response. So yeah.
00:39 - 02:14
Speaker 11
Yes, sure. I'd just like to add to that is for the, especially in speaking about how the state government's work with us. The state government have received disaster ready funding for a portal for information about risk for disasters. And it's, they've been working on it for a couple of years. They're about to release the version that for statewide for flood risk, including sea level rise, including landslip, all of those kind of things, which is a really rich dataset.
We've just started working with them, the partnership, to look at what this means for again, so it gives us data to enable us to see what are the regional priorities for the capital city rather than looking at it from individual datasets. They're ingesting data from private sector partners as well as government layers, so it's a really interesting opportunity. And what we'll be doing is looking at then how do we prioritize, how do we use that data as evidence for future disaster ready funding grants, but also using it to recognize not only emergency management risks, but also economic development, planning. There's just so much that we can do with that. And it's asset management going forward.
Absolutely. So it's a great example of what we lack in most other areas, which is that really holistic, rich data that we can all share across levels of government between councils. That's something that's a big, big gap for us.
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