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eNews Update - May 2026
   

Dear Friends of Resilient Ready,


As we go to press, Resilient Ready Founder Renae Hanvin is delivering a keynote speech at this week's WALGA Emergency Management Forum in Perth. This is hot on the heels of participating in a panel on the East Coast at the Queensland Small Business Expo in Cairns, alongside Gillian Moody from Get Ready Queensland and Rosalind Searle from AAMI.


Meanwhile, team member Fiona Jago's trip to Far North Queensland to run our Business Ready Together discussions has made the news. This time she's in Hinchinbrook at a Queensland Small Business Month event, and is becoming so well known she's even being approached in the supermarket for a chat! Having someone like Fiona visit your community to talk about her real-world experience of running the caravan park on Kangaroo Island during the 2019/2020 bushfires is priceless.


Down south in Victoria, Renae recently ran a great session with the City of Casey Community Service Organisations, focusing on building capability in understanding warnings, essential operations, adapting service delivery, and more. 


If you're keen to talk to us about building resilience, growing social capital within your community, or boosting your disaster preparedness as a business, organisation, or not-for-profit, get in touch.


The Resilient Ready Team.


   
   
   

Using laughter + stories to build resilience

Using humour is not about making light of trauma, loss or serious disruption. Those things matter. But humour can help people engage with difficult, boring, complex or uncomfortable topics. Jokes and banter can lighten moods and lower barriers. When used thoughtfully, it doesn't dilute resilience but builds it.


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Navigating disruptions to survive and thrive

Founder Renae Hanvin joined a panel at the QLD Small Business Expo in Cairns last week, discussing how small businesses could prepare for and adapt to unexpected challenges, such as extreme weather, and the importance of business continuity planning and insurance. 
   
   
   

CURRENT INSIGHTS, SOLUTIONS AND PROJECTS

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

A proposal to set up an elite First Nations crisis capability program in Northern Australia has been explored in a recent edition of The Strategist. 

FUNDING

A one-of-a-kind ‘Wellbeing Hub’ dedicated to supporting Australia's first responders and emergency workers has opened in Perth.

   

CRISIS SOLUTIONS

Integrating distributed energy resources such as EVs, rooftop solar and smart appliances is vital to making Australia’s grid secure.

RESILIENCE

The recent NIDR Gathering shone a spotlight on the work of Indigenous leaders helping to build disaster resilience in their communities.

   
   
   

THE DOING DISASTERS DIFFERENTLY PODCAST

   

Episode #45 - Uncertainty: Why risk leadership needs to change

This month, Resilient Ready Founder Renae Hanvin is joined by Dave Owens, an experienced emergency manager and former Deputy Commissioner with NSW Police who now works with governments and organisations to strengthen risk and crisis leadership. 


Drawing on more than three decades of experience in emergency management, Dave explains why traditional leadership approaches often fall short in complex, uncertain disaster environments. The conversation explores the shift from tactical response to strategic thinking, and why leaders need new skills to navigate increasingly frequent and compounding disasters.


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