Projects and Initiatives Update - October 2024
All of these projects and initiatives have had MADRA support or involvement on some level, such as advocacy emails, letters, meetings and discussions; letters of support; funding support; committee participation or MADRA planning and organisation.
Projects Completed
| Project | Description | Current Status |
| 3MGB, Music Victoria & Mallacoota Events outside broadcast unit | Event broadcasting equipment | Completed |
| Barriers to Rebuilding Scoping Study | Looking at barriers affecting total loss residents who are rebuilding | Completed |
| Be Ready Coota events | Emergency preparedness days | Completed |
| Bushfire First Anniversary Commemoration Film | One Year On – released on 31 December 2020 | Completed |
| Bushfire Memorial near the Main Wharf | Memorial and plaque thanking emergency services, defence forces and volunteers | Completed |
| CHIRF – Youth Workers | Youth and Social Outreach for bushfire-impacted communities tender with Gippsland PHN | Completed |
| Connect and Share dinners | For total loss residents | Completed |
| Coota Gathers | Community events | Completed |
| DELWP - Betka Beach Seawall | Sea wall rebuilt | Completed |
| Disaster Relief Australia | Assistance for fire-affected residents from DRA volunteers | Completed |
| Emergency Preparedness | Meeting Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp and agency representatives | Completed |
| Food Van Feast | Community event run by Preschool | Completed |
| Genoa Bridge | Rebuild of the historic bridge | Completed |
| Genoa Hall | Upgraded | Completed |
| Genoa Sports Club | Tennis courts refurbishment | Completed |
| Homes Victoria – Building of 10 new social and affordable homes | Social and affordable housing | Completed |
| Improving telecommunications | Mallacoota upgrade / Gipsy Point tower | Completed |
| Local Incident Management Plan (LIMP) | Review, updates and distribution of the LIMP | Completed |
| MADRA ‘Sunday in the Soup’ evenings | MADRA social gatherings | Completed |
| MADRA Keynote speaker/s | AIDR (Australian Institute of Disaster Resilience), National Conferences | Completed |
| MADRA Keynote speaker/s | Blue Mountains - Resilient Villages Conference | Completed |
| MADRA Keynote speaker/s | Rising Strong Forum | Completed |
| MADRA Keynote speaker/s (on two occasions) | AFAC (Australasian Fire and Emergency Services Authorities Council) | Completed |
| Mallacoota Abalone Ltd | Rebuild of facilities | Completed |
| Mallacoota Airport | Advocacy for Airport recertification | Completed |
| Mallacoota Arts Council | Printmaking equipment | Completed |
| Mallacoota Bushfire Fuel Management Working Group | Bushfire preparedness and information booklet - Safer Forests, Safer Homes | Completed |
| Mallacoota Bushfire Fuel Management Working Group | Fuel Management Webinar series – available at madrecovery.com | Completed |
| Mallacoota District Historical Society – Bunker Museum | Improvements to the Bunker and surrounds | Completed |
| Mallacoota Endemic Garden | Creation of Botanic Garden | Completed |
| Mallacoota Events | Events including Bastion Beats | Completed |
| Mallacoota Field and Game Club | Rebuild of facilities | Completed |
| Mallacoota Pony Club | Rebuild of facilities | Completed |
| Mallacoota Sea Eagles Dragon Boat Club | Equipment upgrade | Completed |
| Mallacoota Skate Park | Rebuild of facilities | Completed |
| Media participation | ABC ‘People’s Republic of Mallacoota’ documentary | Completed |
| Music Victoria Regional Development Program | A program for musicians, music professionals and music communities | Completed |
| Music Victoria, Coota Gathers and project partners | Music in the Far East project | Completed |
| Phoenix Australia | Psychological First Aid Training | Completed |
| Psychological First Aid | Volunteers trained to support events | Completed |
| RediCommunities Workshops | MADRA/Red Cross partnership | Completed |
| Wellbeing initiatives | Wellbeing tents purchased and available for community events | Completed |
| When the Fire Comes By | Book project | Completed |
| Yarn by the Sea | Social craft program | Completed |
Projects Ongoing
| Project | Description | Current Status |
| Ashes to Music program | Music program | Ongoing |
| East Gippsland Community Recovery Committee Linkup Group | Participation in CRC linkups to support disaster-impacted East Gippsland communities | Ongoing |
| Emergency Relief Centre training | Relief Centre Team established and trained in preparation for future emergencies | Ongoing |
| Envite | Local Natural Resource Management Crews | Ongoing |
| GIVIT donations | Donations for fire-affected residents and community groups | Ongoing |
| Mallacoota Bushfire Fuel Management Working Grou | Regular meetings with agency representatives including DEECA, FFM, CFA, Parks Victoria, EGSC & ERV | Ongoing |
| Mallacoota Bushfire Fuel Management Working Group | Fuel Management Scoping Study project | Ongoing |
| Mallacoota Tool Library | Community tool library | Ongoing |
| MSEG / DELWP / Ausnet | Community Microgrids and Sustainable Energy Program | Ongoing |
| Reclink Australia | Program of community activities | Ongoing |
| Royal Flying Doctor Service | Psychology and outreach services | Ongoing |
| Wilderness Collective | Wilderness Workspace is now in new premises – this initiative is constantly growing and evolving | Ongoing |
Projects Underway
| Project | Description | Current Status |
| Combined Emergency Services facility | Has been planned and gone out to tender | Underway |
| Community Storage solutions and audit | Audit completed, discussions with EGSC and local groups underway | Underway |
| East Gippsland Timber Milling Project | Mobile timber mills to repurpose felled timber | Underway |
| Genoa-Mallacoota Road | Road upgrade - undergoing planning | Planning Underway |
| Mallacoota Arts Council | Workshop extension | Underway |
| Mallacoota Golf Club | Refurbishment of golf course and surrounds | Underway |
| Mallacoota Main Hall | Refurbishment of facilities | Underway |
| Mallacoota Mudbrick Pavilion | Refurbishment of facilities | Underway |
| Media participation | DisasterWISE ‘Story for Purpose’ | Underway |
| Parks, lakes, and beach infrastructure (Parks Victoria) | Some facilities rebuilt – others are still to be done | Underway |
| Wi-Fi connection at Community Clubrooms | Community and emergency Wi-Fi for the Community Clubrooms | Underway |
MADRA's Strategic Planning Phase 2 project was generously funded via East Gippsland Shire Council, by the State of Victoria and Australian Government through Emergency Recovery Victoria's Local Economic Recovery grant program in response to the Bushfires 19/20 which impacted Victorian communities in East Gippsland.
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