IAEM Oceania

2nd Call
Conference theme: Climate for Change - Communication, Collaboration, Co-operation
The Conference will be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada from June 21-24, 2009.

WCDM is the premier annual event that addresses issues common to all aspects of disaster management.
A major goal of the 19th WCDM is to offer a program that challenges delegates by examining traditional concepts and methods, and provides:

Each year IAEM holds an auction to raise money for the student scholarship fund. Each Region contributes a themed basket of goodies to be auctioned. Oceania has chosen 'Resilience - The Way of the Future' as our theme. If you have anything you would like to donate in this theme or collectible items such as EM/ES branded patches, t-shirts, mugs they need to be with Tony Pearce by October 28th.
Send them to:
Tony Pearce (4 basket)
Director General
EMA, Attorney Generals Department
PO Box 1020 Dickson, ACT
Australia 2600

Thinking about doing your CEM? Want to find out more about it? Don't know what it is? Why not come along to one of the CEM 101 courses and find out all about it. After all, obtaining an internationally recognised emergency management credential could be a great professional development goal for the New Year!
The following are scheduled:
22 October, 10:00 - Brisbane, QLD, Australia register by contacting Steve Glassey

If you are a student member of the IAEM you should have received an email about student elections. If you are and you haven't then please review your member profile at www.iaem.com.
Election details: http://www.iaem.com/about/membership/Regions/StudentRegion/StudentVote20...
You will only be voting for the candidates in your Geographic Region.
Online you will find the candidates listed by office, many including photos and candidate statements.
Voting will begin at 8am ET on Monday October 6, 2008 and conclude Thursday October 16, 2008 at 5pm ET.

IAEM-Oceania recently reached a milestone – our first Annual General Meeting (AGM). In the 20 or so months since our creation as an IAEM Region (now Council), IAEM Oceania has grown to more than 200 members. A number of members managed to make it to Sydney on Sept. 11 for the AGM. Those who attended came from all over the Council region, including the states of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory, and three members flew in from New Zealand.
Read the full article in this month's IAEM Bulletin - page 7, IAEM-Oceania Holds the Council’s First AGM

If you haven't visited the resources pages on the site recently please do. You will find information about upcoming events, job advertisements, and recent news articles of interest.

The latest issue of the New Zealand Centre for Advanced Engineering's InfoDirect has a few articles on "Disaster Planning". The feature article is called "Planning for Disasters" and there is an opinion piece called "Natural Disaster Protection" further through. To download a pdf of InfoDirect go to http://www.caenz.com/caeindex.html and select it from the right hand menu. You can also subscribe to future issues by contacting Jo Yang, Publications Co-Ordinator for CAENZ at jo.yang@canterbury.ac.nz.

This feasibility study was commissioned by Save the Children early in the response to explore ways in which to increase the capacity of personnel involved in the response. Save the Children has actively sought the engagement of other agencies, both local and international, in developing this feasibility study, and seeks their active engagement in the implementation of the recommendations. The draft for consultation of this report is now available for those that wish to comment.

The Tasmanian Division of the Australian Institute of Emergency Services annual conference is coming up next month. Find out all about it on our events pages...

Once again, the IAEM is supporting the National Association of Government Communicators - ‘The Science of Communications’ - Connecting Researchers & Practitioners is a workshop for Risk & Crisis Communicators. This workshop is to be held in Hawaii. Feedback from IAEM members that attended the June workshop indicated that the workshop is highly relevant to many IAEM members. For details refer to upcoming events in our resources webpage.