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Flood response review Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced a review of Queensland’s response to the flood event that so severely impacted the south-east of the state. The independent review will be undertaken by Inspector-General Emergency Management Alistair Dawson. The Premier welcomed the review. “This is how we constantly improve our response to natural disasters,” the Premier said. “Learning from the last event makes us better prepared for the next.”
Emergency Services Minister Mark Ryan said that during his tenure as Inspector-General, Mr Dawson had delivered several key reviews to government including the 2019-20 Queensland Bushfires Review and the K’Gari (Fraser Island) Bushfire Review. “Whenever there is a major natural disaster like the devastating flooding event we have just witnessed in south-east Queensland, we will call upon the Inspector-General to conduct an independent review. “The role of the Inspector-General was rec-
ognised by the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements as a leading example of continuous improvement and best practice that has worked successfully and that similar arrangements to the Queensland model would be desirable for other jurisdictions. “The unfortunate reality is that Queensland is the nation’s most disaster-prone state, and while we get a lot of practice responding to these kinds of events, we are always looking to see if we can do things better. “That is the Inspector-General’s job, to ex-
amine the response to the floods, and see if there are any lessons that can be learned, or improvements that can be made to the way we deal with these events.” As part of the independent review, the Inspector-General Emergency Management will be inviting submissions from the public and will host some public forums. The Terms of Reference and further details about how to make a submission will be made available on the Inspector-General’s website at igem.qld.gov.au
Community battery plan for Noosaville welcomed pense of installing one in their own home. It’s a win, win, win. It’s good for household bills, good for emissions reduction, good for energy grid stabilisation”. Zero Emissions Noosa Inc chair Anne Kennedy said, “Zero Emissions Noosa Inc is delighted with this announcement. ZEN Inc has been working for some time on having a community battery or batteries in the Noosa Shire to help business and households to get full advantage of their solar power by having a community battery or batteries to store the solar power for use when the sun doesn’t shine. “A community battery will reduce their power bills, reduce emissions and enable the solar power generated in the local area to be used in the local area.” Mr Bowen said the batteries being announced would, in the future, be joined by other community batteries that were community-led.
Left to right: Geoff Acton, Meghan Halverson, Anne Kennedy, Chris Bowen and Geoff Williams.
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Zero Emissions Noosa Inc has welcomed last Thursday’s announcement by Climate Change and Energy Shadow Minister Chris Bowen that Noosaville would be the site of a community battery under a Labor government. According to Mr Bowen: “In Noosaville 40 per cent of people have solar panels on the roof. That’s higher than the national average because of beautiful temperature, beautiful and sunny. People are harnessing that solar energy for their own needs. But of all those 1700 people or so who have solar panels on the roof, only 30 have a battery, and that means they’re missing out on savings and missing out on emissions reduction. “Under an Albanese Labor Government, we will install a community battery here in Noosaville. This will reduce emissions, reduce power bills. It’ll give people the option of signing up for a battery without the ex-