Australian Government Invests in Emergency Shelters for Future Natural Disasters

There are portable facilities with have a degree of privacy—toilet and bathroom facilities, kitchen—that can be deployed.

Volunteers from the local Rural Fire Brigade help to clean up a flood-affected primary school in Tumbulgum, Australia, on March 6, 2022. Dan Peled/Getty Images

The Australian federal government is investing in deployable emergency shelters that can be deployed nationwide during a state of emergency.

During the Australian Government 2023-24 Higher Risk Weather Season National Preparedness Summit Briefing on Sept. 22, emergency managers detailed the emergency shelters in the briefing and how the return of hot and dry conditions in Australia could increase the risk of bushfires and heatwaves.