The 2009 Victorian Black Saturday bushfires cost a net $942 million, calculate Catherine Stephenson and John Handmer of the Centre for Risk and Community Safety, RMIT University and Bushfire CRC, and Aimee Haywood, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria.
Bushfire CRC research was associated with three winning projects in the 2011 Australian Safer Communities Awards presented by the Commonwealth Attorney General in Canberra.
The formal proceedings of the Science Day held as part of the Bushfire CRC and AFAC 2011 Conference in Sydney are now available. These papers have been anonymously reviewed and published as formal proceedings.
