Community Preparedness Survey / Adverse Event Plan

Consultation has concluded

Consultation has concluded.

This community survey was developed to give us a clear understanding of how our community may be responding to ‘Adverse Events’, including the ongoing drought and the COVID-19 Crisis. We also wanted to understand how prepared the community feels for potential Adverse Events in the future.

Thank you to those who participated in the engagement process. Council has now developed an Adverse Event Plan which aims to improve preparation for and recovery from adverse events.

It has been developed with the valuable input of representatives from the local community sectors and will now be further fleshed out and reviewed on an ongoing basis to ensure actions and recommendations are up-to-date and valid.

If you'd like to get a better understanding of what we heard through the engagement process, the engagement report is available for viewing in the documents panel to the right.

You can also view the final plan, which was adopted by Council at the August 2020 meeting.

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Consultation has concluded.

This community survey was developed to give us a clear understanding of how our community may be responding to ‘Adverse Events’, including the ongoing drought and the COVID-19 Crisis. We also wanted to understand how prepared the community feels for potential Adverse Events in the future.

Thank you to those who participated in the engagement process. Council has now developed an Adverse Event Plan which aims to improve preparation for and recovery from adverse events.

It has been developed with the valuable input of representatives from the local community sectors and will now be further fleshed out and reviewed on an ongoing basis to ensure actions and recommendations are up-to-date and valid.

If you'd like to get a better understanding of what we heard through the engagement process, the engagement report is available for viewing in the documents panel to the right.

You can also view the final plan, which was adopted by Council at the August 2020 meeting.

Register on Your Say Murray River or sign in and stay up to date with this project.



Consultation has concluded

  • The Plan

    Ever wondered how council links in with the community in the face of adverse events, such and drought or the current pandemic?

    Or have you considered how prepared your community feels for potential adverse events in the future?

    Thanks to all your input, we have now developed an Adverse Event Plan designed to provide guidance for increasing resilience to potential adverse events that threaten our Local Government Area.

    At its core the plan emphasises the importance of preparation and risk management processes, and offers a range of strategies to avoid reactive, often late, crisis responses.

    It is a document that Council can implement immediately in its preparation for future crisis’ and to assist recovery from the current drought and pandemic.

    If the implementation of this plan is of interest to you or someone you know, check it out in the documents panel to the right.


  • The feedback

    To inform the development of the of the Murray River Adverse Event Plan, four focus group meetings were held online via Zoom with 35 community members.

    The four focus group themes were:

    • Farmers
    • Local Business and Tourism
    • Community
    • Vulnerable Groups and Crisis

    An online community survey was also published on this site. 28 responses were received.

    The community engagement report in the documents panel to the right provides the detailed outcomes of the focus groups and survey responses in addition to the identification of key themes.

  • Thank you

    We would like to thank our participants, we're now crunching the feedback to formulate the plan to present to the June 30 Council meeting. Watch this space for further updates.