Building resilience in remote Aboriginal students

More than 1,000 students and teachers from remote Northern Territory schools are implementing a new Skills for Life resilience programme.

Supermarket shelves run empty – again

Australia has experienced plenty of supermarket shortages since the COVID pandemic began, but the current shortages are caused by staff absences, rather than a lack of goods or panic buying.

Supply chains strained in 2022

Supermarket shelves around Australia are running bare again as staff shortages caused by omicron bite, but around the world, more fundamental supply chain problems are set to persist well into the new year.

We’ll still need resilience in 2022

Thanks to the pandemic, 2021 was characterised by family, social and financial dislocation, but strengths built through adversity will help us cope individually and collectively in an uncertain start to 2022.

Made in Australia

From covid vaccines to guided missiles, it’s important that Australia develops domestic production capacity to reduce our resilience on uncertain global supply chains.

All I want for Christmas is supply chain resilience

The higher costs and lower reliability of international freight transport have been a problem since the start of COVID-19, and increased demand over Christmas could further strain supply chains.

AdBlue shortage highlights ongoing supply-chain problems

Supply-chain challenges continue to plague Australia despite the significant focus the problem has received in recent years due to the pandemic and issues with China.

Mobilising for resilience

Mobilising society, rather than individual institutions, will be required to face a range of threats from war, grey-zone conflict, terrorism and organised crime to domestic and offshore natural disasters.

Australia – A complacent nation

Lead author of the final report from the GAP/IIER-A National Resilience Initiative John Blackburn AO introduces the recommendations of an 18-month long project which brought together over 250 Australian experts to examine the nation’s resilience in the face of a changing world.

Australian sovereignty requires new thinking on investment and trade

Economic policy should be positioned alongside security, sovereignty and resilience through a more holistic nation-building agenda that invests in what we’re good at, values what we have and builds the future we want.

Small towns need big focus on resilience

Supporting regional communities to respond to the increasing threat of climate-fuelled disasters has never been more vital.

The perfect storm of global vulnerability?

A new approach to national risk-management is required, given the increasing range and complexity of environmental and other threats to this country.