As CEO and founder of the Bushfire Building Council of Australia (BBCA) Kate Cotter has spent over a decade in the bushfire resilience advocacy space and says the scale and regularity of Australia’s natural disasters resulting in home loss has become so pronounced it’s now nigh on impossible to help people individually.
“After the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires there were just so many people impacted, we really couldn’t resource helping everyone, due to the scale of the problem,” she says.
She has also had the personal experience of trying to build a house in a bushfire prone area, when it took six years to complete. The scanty advice available for people either in this position or trying to rebuild post-disaster
