Practices by Country

Like all Australian missions overseas, the Australian Embassy in Seoul maintains regularly updated consular contingency plans based on an ‘all hazards’ approach.

Community Profiles have been developed by Australia’s Department of Immigration and Citizenship to assist service providers to better understand the backgrounds and needs of Humanitarian Programme arrivals in Australia.

Community Profiles and Factsheets are produced for the top 100 overseas birthplace groups in Victoria. Each profile includes a series of 32 tables comparing diverse ethnic characteristics with a range of socio-demographic variables.

The Community Profiles provide a snapshot of South Australia's diverse communities, looking at country of birth.

The Melbourne Fire Brigade (MFB)  actively partner with  diverse community to minimize the frequency and impact of fires and other emergencies, and increase individual and community capacity to respond and recover.

The  Exploring  inherent  capabilities  in  communities  with  migrant  and  refugee  backgrounds  for disaster  resilience project  was  initiated  by  the  Australian  Emergency  Management  Institute (AEMI)  in  an  effort  to  undertake  exploratory  research  into  inherent  capabilities  an

A conference was organized on 17th October 2009 by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)’s Jurisdictional Community Partnership project, as component of Attorney General Department’s Inclusive Emergency Management with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Communities Program.

Exercise “Stuffed Goose” is a multi-agency exercise involving State Government departments and agencies, including the Country Fire Service (CFS), South Australia (SA) Police, State Emergency Service (SES), Metropolitan Fire Service SA, Local Government, and community volunteers.

This publication presents eight Jurisdictional Community Partnership projects implemented across Australia using different models of community engagement relevant to their jurisdiction and community needs.

Following the 2004 tsunami in the South East Asia, Qantas Airlines, sent planes to Thailand, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives to evacuate Australian tourists, without regard to which airline passengers had booked their original flights.  The company also sent its medical staff to these locations to ai