Functions of the National Flood Risk Advisory Group
The National Flood Risk Advisory Group (NFRAG) provides expert advice and a national focus for addressing flood management. NFRAG's current functions include to:
- Identify and promote nationally consistent best practice flood risk management
- advise on nationally consistent flood risk management policy
- provide specialist, expert advice on flood risk management to the work programme of the Australian-New Zealand Emergency Management Committee (ANZEMC) and its subcommittees
- promote community safety with respect to flooding and flood risk, in support of the Community Engagement sub-committee of the ANZEMC
- identify and prioritise research needs for improving the quality of flood risk management
- facilitate and improve communication between flood emergency managers, flood risk managers, land use managers and other stakeholders.
Topic contact: hazards@ga.gov.au Last updated: November 13, 2012
