Season 3, Ep 12: Caring through Disaster with Dr Millie Rooney and Rachel Hay
In tumultuous times, how do we ensure that communities can care and be cared for through disaster?
It’s all hands on deck for this episode of the reMAKERS podcast, as Lily welcomes Dr Millie Rooney (Co-Director) and Rachel Hay (Research and Projects Officer) onto the podcast to talk about Australia reMADE’s Care through Disaster project.
Rebecca Solnit has described disasters as a portal to paradise, where the community is freed from the constraints that usually keep us apart. But what if we could build the infrastructure to support strong, resilient communities before disaster, and set ourselves up to survive and thrive in good times as well as bad?
As we face increasing climate-fuelled disasters, applying a care lens to the usually efficiency-focused work of disaster management can ensure that no one is left behind; and that our communities are seen, safe and supported.
This conversation will leave you energised to create the community that you want, today.
This episode of the reMAKERS was recorded from the lands of the Gubbi Gubbi people, in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, and the lands of the Muwinina and Palawa peoples in Nipaluna/Hobart in Lutruwita/Tasmania. We honour the Traditional Owners of these lands and waters, and pay our respect to Elders past and present.
Show notes
Things and people we mention
Australia reMADE’s Care through Disaster report
Women’s Health Goulburn North East, our project partner
Our blog on Making Space for Utopia: the story of Fossil Free UTAS
Rachel’s work on transport decarbonisation with Climate Tasmania
The Australian Government’s Intergenerational Report
Our work on Care, Connection, Contribution and the Public Good
A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
Our three-part blog series on reMAKING economics
How art can help communities recover from disaster
Things you can do
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