Emergency Management

Knowingly pushing 200,000 Victorians into poverty is a terrible start to our post-COVID recovery.

Disaster management has become a more familiar concept for more Victorians over the last couple of years.

The bushfires of the Black Summer of 2019–20 were among the worst in our state’s history.

Submission to the Victorian Parliament’s PAEC Inquiry into Victoria’s Response to COVID-19

The pandemic is far from over. So the Commonwealth's financial supports must continue.

Community service organisations see first-hand the impacts of natural disasters on our most vulnerable people.

Significant changes have been and continue to be made in Victoria’s emergency management arrangements.

Climate change is, among other things, an unconscionable assault on the poor.

The review of the Vulnerable People in Emergencies policy is an important step in improving emergency management policies to better

Know what to do before, during and after the storm and who to contact if you need help.

Community organisations are the key to helping Victorians prepare for and overcome disasters and it is time to bring them

In October 2016, the Australian Senate initiated an Inquiry into policy mechanisms to encourage the retirement of coal-fired power stations

Victoria’s peak social advocacy body is sending every state MP, local council and community leader a blueprint to fight poverty

Managing volunteers who turn up after an emergency or during a crisis is crucially important, writes Volunteering Victoria CEO Sue

This report identifies and describes how emergencies have an adverse effects on people who experience, or are at risk of,

The economic costs of increased health-related, employment and community costs following a natural disaster are examined for the first time

VCOSS is pleased to provide this Supplementary Submission to the 2015 Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry, responding to discussion at the

Submission to the 2015 Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry 2 Introduction VCOSS welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the 2015 re-opened

The VCOSS Submission to Melbourne Water’s Draft Flood Management Strategy warns that the social and economic context in which floods

More than 120 people from across state and local government, community and social service organisations, emergency services organisations and academia

The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission has released its 2014 Report on the operation of the Charter of

This report, based on the experiences and feedback of community and social services working in Morwell, highlights the long-term impacts

Cross-Sectoral Conversations about Innovations and Struggles, Learnings and Changes in the Aftermath of the February 7 2009 Black Saturday Mega-Firestorm

With the weather heating up significantly across Victoria this week and weekend, we are reminded of the need to ensure