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Home / Archived Article(s) by Author: Paul Barnes
    • Resilience

    Fighting natural disasters

    Paul Barnes     |      May 8, 2021

    Australians have endured floods, bushfires and hailstorms and more over the last two years. The government is better aligning policy to deal with disasters, but its plan is somewhat half-baked.

    • Resilience

    A new dawn for disaster management

    Paul Barnes     |      November 18, 2020

    Effective disaster risk reduction focuses heavily on prevention and preparedness capacities, but it also implies coordination between state and federal agencies.

    • Resilience

    Building research capacity for a disaster-resilient Australia

    Paul Barnes     |      October 14, 2020

    Australia needs a networked consortium of teaching universities and regional research centres helping our emergency and disaster management services face the myriad dangers we face.

    • Infrastructure

    Do we need a bushfire royal commission?

    Paul Barnes     |      January 17, 2020

    The prime minister has announced that the cabinet will consider a royal commission into aspects of the ongoing fire disaster once the bushfires are under control, so how might this be organised to ensure it produces results?

    • Defence and Security

    Rethinking Australia’s food security

    Paul Barnes     |      August 28, 2019

    Australia needs to adopt a more coherent approach to the critically important convergence of food security, climate change and national security.

    • Infrastructure

    Planning Darwin’s future as a “resilient city”

    Paul Barnes     |      July 30, 2019

    Darwin’s development of its own resilience plan would strengthen the city’s importance as a viable, vibrant and secure state capital.

    • Society

    Australia’s north needs people and people need a resilient economy

    Paul Barnes     |      April 26, 2019

    Defence and security will always make Darwin a priority from a national perspective but, as our northernmost capital city, different ideas to make the city more economically resilient need to be supported.

    • Science and Technology

    The art of avoiding technological traps

    Paul Barnes     |      December 9, 2018

    The Federal Government should create an Office of Technology Assessment to provide timely and targeted advice to Ministers, officials and public agencies to ensure they understand the risks, rewards and implications of new technology.

    • Defence and Security

    Rethinking Australia’s biosecurity

    Paul Barnes     |      October 4, 2018

    Deliberate or accidental biosecurity breaches, such as last month’s strawberry contamination scare, present very real economic threats to Australia.

    • Defence and Security

    Australia needs better disaster management and risk reduction education

    Paul Barnes     |      June 22, 2018

    While there have been some notable moves to improve management of national resilience issues, non-natural hazards pose a range of challenges that need to be factored into current thinking and practice.

    • Defence and Security

    Can the National Resilience Taskforce help protect Australia?

    Paul Barnes     |      May 19, 2018

    Australia faces a range of natural and man-made threats to its vital infrastructure. How should the government’s resilience taskforce tackle the challenges which lie ahead?

    • Energy

    Australia’s fuel vulnerability is a problem of own making

    Paul Barnes     |      April 16, 2018

    Australia is a major energy exporter, yet our lack of domestic refining capacity leaves us evermore reliant on potentially vulnerable maritime supply chains to deliver imported supplies.

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