Resilient Queensland

Delivering the Queensland Strategy for Disaster Resilience

As the most disaster prone state in Australia, it is critical to look for new ways of working together and improving the safety and resilience of Queensland communities.

Everyone has a role to play in making Queensland the most disaster resilient state in Australia. The Queensland Strategy for Disaster Resilience (2017) states that as Queenslanders, we are disaster resilient when:

• we understand the potential disaster risks we face
• we work together to better manage disaster risk
• we seek new opportunities to reduce disaster risk
• we continually improve how we prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters.

Queensland’s disaster resilience is built through collaborative approaches that are regionally coordinated, locally led and supported with state resources. Greater collaboration and coordination of resilience efforts across the state will be guided by the following key principles:

• local leadership
• flexibility and adaptation
• shared responsibility and collaboration
• prioritisation
• resilience becomes business as usual. 

Resilient Queensland in Action 

Resilient Queensland in Action (Progress update, February 2020) highlights how we are delivering on the objectives of the Queensland Strategy for Disaster Resilience and the Resilient Queensland 2018-21 implementation plan. This progress update demonstrates some of the great work happening throughout Queensland to improve disaster resilience over the past 18 months. It showcases achievements including case studies and initiatives by our state agencies, local governments and communities, incorporating climate risk and delivering a comprehensive, all-hazards approach to building disaster resilience.