Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast with Renae Hanvin

In this episode, Renae reflects on the increasing complexity of disasters in Australia, from bushfires and floods to smaller disruptions like power outages and staffing shortages. She emphasises the critical role small businesses play in community resilience, noting that "if small businesses get impacted, it actually affects the whole community." 

Renae discusses the development of the Business Community Resilience toolkit, a microlearning program focused on disaster preparedness, which uses nudge theory to help businesses become more resilient. This approach has been implemented across various regions and industries, including collaborations with the CFA in Victoria and the South Australian government. 

In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, I sat down with David Parsons, crisis management expert, and volunteer advisor and delivery partner at Resilient Ready and today we are talking about safeguarding livelihoods and services after disasters. 

In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, I sat down with Tracy Collier, GM of Strategy and Programs for the Thriving Communities Partnership and today we are talking about building thriving communities. 

In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently the Podcast, I sit down with Jenn Donovan from Spend with us and we are discussing ‘Getting Australia to Buy from the Bush’. 

Today Renae sits down with Bridget Tehan, the Senior Policy Advisor at the Victorian Council of Social Services, also called VCOSS. We are sitting down to discuss the role of community organisations in disasters.
Bridget has worked for more than 10 years in emergency management in both the government and not-for-profit sectors. Bridget is currently a senior policy advisor at the Victorian Council of Social Services and works to highlight the role of the community sector in building resilience and to explore the role of the sector in emergency management.

Bridget also works to highlight the needs of vulnerable and disadvantaged people before, during and after emergencies as well as their needs in the mitigation, transition and adaptation to climate change. Bridget is also the co-founder and President of the Australasian Women in Emergencies Network (AWEN).

Links:

VCOSS 

Perspectives from the frontline report

Connect with Bridget on LinkedIn

In the twenty-fivth episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, Renae Hanvin will be talking with Tony Pearce, Victoria’s first Inspector-General for Emergency Management (IGEM). He shares with us how this role was created and how it is impacting the Victorian community as we continue to see a rise in disasters in our country. 

In the twenty-fourth episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, Renae Hanvin will be talking with  Lawrence Atkinson from BusinessBM and we are discussing ‘Business networks build resilience’. C2C and BusinessBM have teamed up and today we will discuss the changes we are hoping to see in the Blue Mountains region in New South Wales. 

In the twenty-third episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, Renae Hanvin will be talking with Natalie Egleton, CEO of the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR). She was appointed CEO of the FRRR in November 2015, after joining the organisation in 2012, and she's responsible for shaping the FRRR’s strategy, designing new programs and developing and nurturing new funding partnerships. 

In the twenty-second episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, Renae Hanvin will be talking with James Ritchie, the Director of Thamani and Principal Consultant with our C2C collective. He is currently located in Germany and has just come out of a 200-day lockdown and will share with us his thoughts. 

In the twenty-first episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, Renae Hanvin will be talking with Amanda Leck, the Executive Director of the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience, also known as AIDR , where she leads a program of work on behalf of the Commonwealth Government through the Department of Home Affairs - Emergency Management Australia to support a disaster resilient Australia. 

I’m so excited to have Amanda on the show as she shares her wisdom on how we can all have an impact on the future of disaster resilience in Australia.