Regulatory & Government

The Federal Budget will tomorrow include a $600 million mitigation program, overseen by a new National Recovery and Resilience Agency, that will support community and household resilience projects...

The National Insurance Brokers Association has pressed for changes to make it easier to provide personal advice to clients at an Australian Securities and Investments Commission roundtable...

The Victorian state government has allocated a record $517 million funding package aimed at reducing bushfire risk for what it says are “longer, hotter fire seasons to come”...

The insurance industry is working on a response to a natural disaster royal commission recommendation on consumer guidance for recognised retrofitting and mitigation works that will help with premium reductions...

NSW has called for feedback on draft guidelines that aim to drive greater consideration of natural hazards in local council and state authority strategic planning...