Get-Together Recordings Available to View On Our Youtube Channel!

As requested by our members, we’ve begun recording our monthly Get-Togethers. You can access our conversations from April 2025 onwards, here on our website - or on our Youtube channel.

Recent Updates

Are you a community group
based in the Northern Rivers?

We’re coming in August and we’d love to meet you and your neighbours. Please email us if you’d like to get in touch to arrange a time for us to come together.

Visit Us At The Climate Adaptation Conference in July!

In April, the DisasterWISE community came together for our monthly online Get-Together focused on "Community Scale Energy Solutions." We were joined by Matthew Charles-Jones, founding member and past president of Totally Renewable Yackandandah (TRY), who shared insights into how communities can better prepare for energy crises and explore sustainable alternatives. Matthew discussed TRY's journey toward powering their Victorian community with 100% renewable energy, highlighting the importance of community-led initiatives in building resilience. If you want to connect with others exploring community-led initiatives and projects, visit the DisasterWISE Learning Network Platform.

We’re heading to Resilience Lane!

In April, the DisasterWISE community came together for our monthly online Get-Together focused on "Community Scale Energy Solutions." We were joined by Matthew Charles-Jones, founding member and past president of Totally Renewable Yackandandah (TRY), who shared insights into how communities can better prepare for energy crises and explore sustainable alternatives. Matthew discussed TRY's journey toward powering their Victorian community with 100% renewable energy, highlighting the importance of community-led initiatives in building resilience. If you want to connect with others exploring community-led initiatives and projects, visit the DisasterWISE Learning Network Platform.

NIDR Communique - Victorian Policy Roundtable on Aboriginal Disaster Resilience

This Communique was developed by delegates who attended the Victorian Policy Roundtable on Aboriginal Disaster Resilience in Naarm/Melbourne on Friday 30 May 2025. It is addressed to all individuals and entities involved in the business of emergency management, community recovery, and broadly addressing climate change through mitigation, adaptation, and Caring for Country.

NIDR Communique - Victorian Policy Roundtable on Aboriginal Disaster Resilience

This Communique was developed by delegates who attended the Victorian Policy Roundtable on Aboriginal Disaster Resilience in Naarm/Melbourne on Friday 30 May 2025. It is addressed to all individuals and entities involved in the business of emergency management, community recovery, and broadly addressing climate change through mitigation, adaptation, and Caring for Country.

Resource Spotlight

NIDR Communique - Victorian Policy Roundtable on Aboriginal Disaster Resilience

This Communique was developed by delegates who attended the Victorian Policy Roundtable on Aboriginal Disaster Resilience in Naarm/Melbourne on Friday 30 May 2025. It is addressed to all individuals and entities involved in the business of emergency management, community recovery, and broadly addressing climate change through mitigation, adaptation, and Caring for Country.

Our Socials

View fullsize 🌱Creating the Conditions for Change 🌱 Such a busy few days in Cronulla with the extended @FiretoFlourish team sharing learnings from the five year program during On Country Week. Kate and Monika presented on research and theories underpinning th
View fullsize We are so excited to share our inagural event Community Congress! Led by those with lived experience of climate disasters, the Community Congress is a grassroots gathering for sharing powerful stories, knowledge and action. Hosted by DisasterWISE in
View fullsize Book Club Next Week!! 📖 🔖 💬 🔗 For our August book club, we’re exploring the intersection of Indigenous knowledge and described ethical disaster research. The Knowledge Keepers is a powerful documentary that centres First Nations Elders and
View fullsize 💡 What are we learning? DisasterWISE is a community-led learning network, growing a movement of people who are building resilience through self-determination and community-led action. Each month we host an online Get-Together around a topical the
View fullsize COMMUNITY CONGRESS, SEPTEMBER 2025 — EOIs CLOSING IN 4 DAYS (Friday, 1st of August - end of day) Are you part of a local community group or collective driving change in your own community? Submit an EOI, and here's a few reasons why... 📢 Pla
View fullsize Attending the Climate Adaptation Conference in Perth last week offered a valuable opportunity to engage with a diverse community of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working at the forefront of climate resilience. The sessions highlighte
View fullsize Good news community groups! We’ve extended our EOI’s for our bi-annual event COMMUNITY CONGRESS, for 1 more week. You now have until the 1st of August to complete the quick 5 minute form. ✨🤠
View fullsize 🌿 DisasterWISE at the Climate Adaptation Conference 2025 in Boorloo / Perth! 🌏 Monika and Kate are in Boorloo / Perth this week for the Climate Adaptation 2025 Conference, where experts, researchers, and organisations are coming together to exchan
View fullsize Join us for our August Get-Together on 'Critical Care is the Practice: Holding Each Other When Systems Step Back' 🛒🪴🥘🔧 This session will explore how mutual aid, cultural practices, and everyday acts of care sustain people and become critical thr
View fullsize 🌱 What does it really mean to be community-led? 🌱 At the DisasterWISE June Get-Together, we unpacked the critical differences between community-led and community-centred approaches - and the power shifts each requires. Participants shared powerf
View fullsize 📣Community-led Action Groups! We’re looking at you 👀 We have three powerful streams to cover for the COMMUNITY CONGRESS event in September - Caring for Country, Community-led Action and Peaceful Resistance. You can fill in the EOI form pre
View fullsize Expressions of Interest Now Open 📣 COMMUNITY CONGRESS, 2025 Join us on the 19th of September for a community-led virtual event centring real stories, shared learnings and bold community driven ideas for adaptation, disaster resilience, recovery an
View fullsize We’re proud to formally announce the inaugural members of the DisasterWISE Board of Directors. Please join us in welcoming the Board as they support the next evolution - an independent and innovative company, stewarding the DisasterWISE Commun
View fullsize Following on from our June discussion on Community-led vs Community-centered, this month we will continue the conversation on the role of trust in building lasting, meaningful connections. Together, we’ll explore how trust forms the foundation
View fullsize 🌏 DisasterWISE at the Climate Adaptation Conference 🌱 We’re proud to be part of the 2025 Climate Adaptation Conference in Perth from the 23rd-25th of July—bringing a community voice to national conversations on climate adaptation and r