Crisis Coordination Centre

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Australian Government Crisis Coordination Centre

CCC

Strategic Crisis Management Overview Emergency Management Australia

Friday 29 May 2015

Andrew Grace – Director Operations

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A Modern, Robust and All-Hazard Approach

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• Spans the risk spectrum from Natural Disasters to Counter Terrorism

• Common high level governance processes

• Similar systems and information management arrangements

• Key senior leaders are often the same

• Similar overarching coordination framework to manage the incident

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Australia’s Area of Responsibility

• Australia is the world’s sixth-largest country by total area

• Australia is a Commonwealth of six States and two territories who work cooperatively together in Disaster Management

• The States and Territories have primary responsibility for the protection of life, property and the environment and are the first responders to disaster and security incidents

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Australian Government Crisis Management Framework

• Outlines processes for management of hazard-specific crises and crises requiring whole of government coordination

• Explicitly links ministerial actions and considerations with the work of key officials, committees and facilities under portfolio-driven and whole of government circumstances

• Most crises are managed in accordance with hazard-specific and portfolio-driven processes

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Australian Government Crisis Coordination Centre Responsibilities

• Cross–domain situational awareness

• Maintenance of common recognised info picture

• Coordination of briefings - incl AGCC, NCC

• Provision & coordination of briefing material for committees

• Compilation and distribution of committee outcomes

• Facilitate planning for public communications

• Provision of Whole of Government updates and reports to Parliament House Brief Room

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Crisis Management Foundations • Situational Awareness

– Multiple sources

– Communications

• Common Operating Picture – Incident Management System

– Specialist feeds

• Partnerships with key stakeholders – Bureau of Meteorology

– Geoscience Australia

– Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet

– Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade

• Continuous Improvement – Critical Evaluation

– Applying Lessons Learned

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Crisis Management Evolution • Early identification of crisis

– Scenario : what could happen – Consequences

• Develop Options for action – What response will be required – Identify stakeholders – Activate Plans – Identify/Prepare/Pre-position capability

• Pre-emptive committee/coordination meetings • Deploy Liaison Officers • Stand-up Incident Management Team • Conduct Lessons Learned – during and after

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NSW Bushfires- October 2013 • Centered around the Blue Mountains

• AGCC held, Report from New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) identified State facing significant threat

• EMALO Deployed to NSW RFS

• Multi- agency Incident Management Team (IMT) established in CCC (First Time)

• Australian Government Agencies deployed to IMT

• Options papers develop using joint agency planning

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• Commanders Intent assisted to manage event

• Highlighted importance of early activation of IMT

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Questions

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