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Ex-Tropical Cyclone Jasper and floods (December 2023)
Click here for information and resources to help you, your staff and patients during disaster recovery following ex-Tropical Cyclone Jasper and associated flooding, which occurred in December 2023.
Useful links
Visit the Get Ready Queensland website for a variety of useful advice and resources to help you prepare and recover from a disaster event.
The following websites and fact sheets will also help you:
Be prepared
The following websites and fact sheets will help you to be prepared for a disaster:
Queensland Government
- Get Ready Queensland
- Preparing for Disasters
- Prepare your home
- Prepare an emergency kit
- Prepare for evacuation
- Check your neighbours
- Pet emergency planning
Queensland Health
Download the Get Ready Emergency Kit
Other resources
- 3 things we can do now to help people with disability prepare for disaster (theconversation.com)
- Homelessness & Disaster: Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness (Collaborating 4 Inclusion)
Public health advice
Queensland Health factsheets
- Public health advice for disaster management
- Black flies-a public health risk after a flood
- Restoring flood-affected domestic swimming pools and spa pools
- Ensuring safe drinking water
- Restoring rainwater tanks affected by natural disasters (including bore water-holding tanks)
- Health advice for emergency response workers
- Use and disposal of medicines after a disaster
- Food safety in an emergency
- Controlling mosquito breeding after floods, storms and cyclone
- Mosquito-borne diseases after a storm, flood or cyclone
- Dealing with mould after a storm, flood or cyclone
- Returning to a disaster-affected house or building
- Stay safe and healthy after storms, floods and cyclones
- Use of playgrounds and sporting fields during flood recovery
General useful links
- Community Services Industry Alliance: a toolkit supporting and encouraging the role of community–based organisations
- QCOSS Community Door: provides access to a variety of resources to assist Non-Government Organisations to consider when developing Business Continuity Plans and processes to assist vulnerable clients in a disaster.
- ABC Radio is the recognised Emergency Broadcaster
- Bureau of Meteorology
- Australian Red Cross
- Disability Inclusive disaster risk reduction: Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness (Collaborating 4 Inclusion)
- 'Nobody checked on us': what people with disability told us about their experiences of disasters and emergencies (theconversation.com)
- Lifeline
- Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience
- Mental health and wellbeing (Queensland Government)
- Translated fact sheets about financial assistance grants (Queensland Government)
- Local government disaster dashboards (Queensland Government)
- Bushfire Resilience Rating app (National Emergency Management Agency)
- Connects Rural Australia to Mental Health Services (Rural Health Connect)
- Grants Finder (Queensland Government)
- Queensland Gives (Queensland Community Foundation)
- RACQ Foundation
Also check local Council websites and social media accounts (e.g. Facebook) to ensure you, staff and clients have access to up to date source of information during and post a disaster.
Resources for children
Federal Government’s information for school aged kids:
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