Tasmanian Disaster Resilience Strategy

Have your say to inform the next Tasmanian Disaster Resilience Strategy

The Tasmanian Government is working on a new strategy that will help our state be more resilient when disasters happen. This will replace the current strategy when it concludes in December 2025.

What is disaster resilience?

Simply, disaster resilience is about our ability to ‘bounce back’ from disasters and emergencies. It includes how we prevent, live through and recover from the harmful impacts of natural hazards on people, places and the natural environment.

More formally, disaster resilience is the ability to anticipate and resist the effects of a disruptive event, minimise adverse impacts, respond safely and effectively, maintain or recover functionality, and adapt in a way that allows for learning and thriving.

What type of disasters could Tasmania experience?

We are experiencing emergencies more frequently and with more intensity. These events have significant impacts on our communities, economy, infrastructure and environment.

Since the release of the current strategy, Tasmanians have experienced small to large-scale emergency events including bushfires, floods, storms, network outages, cyber incidents and the COVID-19 pandemic. The arrangements to manage these events are set out in the Tasmanian Emergency Management Arrangements.

The Tasmanian Disaster Risk Assessment has outlined the most likely large-scale disasters that our state could experience.

The challenges we are facing now and could face into the future require us to continue to develop our disaster resilience to strengthen the ability of our community, government, infrastructure and environment to prepare, mitigate, cope and recover.

How to have your say

The next Tasmanian Disaster Resilience Strategy will provide a high-level vision, guiding principles and strategic priorities for areas where governments, industry, the non‑government sector and communities can work alongside each other to make Tasmania a more resilient state.

We’ve run a series of workshops with emergency management stakeholders and experts to help inform ideas around the strategy and now we want to hear from a broad range of Tasmanians.

This an opportunity to share your views on disaster resilience. Your feedback will help the Tasmanian Government to shape the vision and guiding principles for a disaster resilient Tasmania. It will also provide us with information on Tasmanians’ values, preparedness and level of concern about disasters.

You can have your say by completing this short survey. The survey will close on 6 November 2025.

What happens next?

It is envisaged that the next Tasmanian Disaster Resilience Strategy will be released in early 2026.

Tasmania's current Disaster Resilience Strategy

Tasmania’s first Disaster Resilience Strategy brings together sectors and communities to build on current actions that support disaster resilience. It provides a vision of a disaster resilient Tasmania and paths to work towards that vision.

Tasmanian Disaster Resilience Strategy 2020-2025

Tasmanian Disaster Resilience Strategy 2020-2025: Background and supporting information