RACQ's submission to the Review into Queensland’s Disaster Management Arrangements
Advocacy
RACQ is proud of our long history helping Queenslanders protect their homes and families from the devastating impacts of natural disasters.
In this submission RACQ urges all levels of Government to work together with communities to create a more resilient state by:
- Developing and implementing disaster resilience plans in the high-risk communities,
- Investing in public infrastructure that reduces risk of flood and other natural perils,
- Investing in programs that encourage and incentivise disaster mitigation features in private dwellings,
- Improving land use planning to prevent the mistakes of the past,
- Put new communities in safer locations or design them in a manner more appropriate to the natural peril risks in the local area,
- Improving standards for designing and building homes that increase disaster resilience,
- Using our natural environment such as waterways and landscapes in a smarter, more sustainable way to better manage higher volumes of rainfall.