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This report investigates damage to buildings caused by Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle that crossed the Western Australian coast south of Coral Bay Friday 27th March 2026 at around 1pm as a category 3 severe tropical cyclone.

A practice statement describing how research teams should plan, run and report fire behaviour and cultural burning research carried out with Aboriginal ranger groups. It sets expectations for free, prior and informed consent, joint authorship, data custody, seasonal timing agreed with Traditional Owners, and return of results in community preferred formats. Prepared with ranger group coordinators across northern Australia and the Kimberley.

A field day held at Longreach Pastoral College for graziers, agronomists and local government staff across central west Queensland. The programme covered ground cover monitoring from satellite imagery, fodder budgeting through consecutive dry years, stock water security and the mental health support available through rural outreach services. Sessions were delivered jointly by researchers and producers who managed through the 2017 to 2020 drought.

An analysis of farm business survey returns and off farm income records for 640 broadacre and mixed enterprises across the northern Murray Darling Basin during the 2017 to 2020 drought. The article separates losses absorbed through farm equity from those offset by off farm employment and household support payments, and compares outcomes for irrigators and dryland producers. Written for agricultural economists and drought policy analysts.

A peer reviewed article reporting interviews and classroom observations in eleven primary and secondary schools across the Bega Valley and Eurobodalla, carried out two years after the 2019 to 2020 Black Summer fires. The study examines what students retained from bushfire preparedness lessons, how teachers managed student distress, and where school emergency plans diverged from Rural Fire Service advice. Written for education departments and hazard communication staff.

A position statement setting out how health departments, ambulance services and research partners should share heat related presentation and dispatch data during declared heatwaves. It covers minimum aggregation levels, turnaround expectations while an event is running, de-identification practice and the standing approvals that need to be in place before summer. Issued to speed up heat health warning evaluation after the January 2024 Adelaide and Melbourne heat episodes.

A one day roundtable bringing together seismologists, building regulators and state emergency managers to review earthquake risk settings for southeast Australia after the 2021 Woods Point earthquake. Sessions cover unreinforced masonry retrofit, the national earthquake hazard map update, and post event building assessment capability in Victoria and New South Wales. Outputs are a summary note and a revised research priority list. Open to agency staff and researchers by registration.