| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Dissolved | 1 September 2022 |
| Superseding agency | |
| Jurisdiction | Commonwealth of Australia |
| Headquarters | Canberra |
| Minister responsible | |
| Parent department | Department of Home Affairs |
| Website | https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/emergency-management/ |
Emergency Management Australia (EMA) was an Australian Government body responsible for emergency management coordination. EMA was transferred from the Attorney-General's Department in a machinery of government change to become a division of the newly established Department of Home Affairs in 2018. EMA involved the plans, structures and arrangements which are established to bring together the normal endeavours of government, voluntary and private agencies in a comprehensive and coordinated way to deal with the whole spectrum of emergency needs including prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. It was dissolved on the 1 September 2022.
Until late 2001, EMA was an agency within the former Australian Defence Force Support Command and then the Department of Defence Corporate Support Group.[1][2]
In July 2022, the Albanese government announced that it would recommend the Governor-General to merge the agency and the National Recovery and Resilience Agency on 1 September 2022 to form a new agency.[3] The new agency was later known as the National Emergency Management Agency.
- ^ "Commonwealth Emergency Management Arrangements Performance Audit" (PDF). Australian National Audit Office. 28 April 2000. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
- ^ "Emergency Management Australia". Australian National Audit Office. 16 April 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
- ^ "Australia's Key Disaster Agencies Now Even Closer". Ministers for the Department of Home Affairs. 1 July 2022.