Global Resilience Forum

Late last year I attended the Red Cross’ Global Resilience Forum in Cali, Colombia. Cali is possibly one of the furthest cities from Melbourne. It also rates as one of the most dangerous cities in the world (which I found out as I was researching what I might do with spare time while I was […]

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Tables that are round

Yesterday we held the second Red Cross National Resilience Roundtable. The focus of this roundtable was on the role of the not for profit and non-traditional organisations in emergency management. The idea was to draw attention to the range of resources that the not for profit sector has offer. To consider this, we brought together […]

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#RedCross100

Red Cross in Australia is 100! It has been an interesting journey for an organisation that is a little bit different to others. It has been recognised by at least one author as the first disaster management organisation in Australia. When you think about it, we do precede fire services and emergency services as they […]

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