Volume 25 Issue 3, 2010

Emergency management volunteers: Thank you!

Australian Emergency Management Institute

The 2010 National Emergency Management Volunteers Photographic Competition

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In 2010 the Attorney-General’s Department conducted a National Emergency Management Volunteers Photographic Competition. This year’s competition was designed to promote awareness of the role and value of emergency management volunteers, not only in responding to disasters but also in everyday activities—activities such as the delivery of community education programs, administrative roles and a range of support services for people affected by disasters.

The competition, which is now in its third year, was judged in three streams—professional, secondary school students and individuals (non professional). The photographs depict volunteers in action and showcase their capability and commitment to enhancing Australia’s capacity to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies.

National Winner
– Professional Category –
Appreciation in a hug, by Michael Marston, © The State of Queensland.

A smiling male emergency services officer hugs a woman while a smiling girls looks on. All are wearing marine life vests. In the background is brown floodwater and partially submerged bush.

National Winner
ACT Highly Commended Award
– Student Category –
The heroes of the bush, by Tim Eckert, Meningie Area School.

A night scene of several fire trucks with flood lights on, lined up along a dirt road. Several emergency services personnel are standing near some trees at the side of the road.

National Highly Commended Award
South Australian Highly Commended Award
– Individual Category –
Thanks for the tow mate, Yvonne Hill.

Two uniformed people on a sea rescue boat are assisting two people in a smaller outboard boat on calm open water.

Western Australian Highly Commended Award
– Individual Category –
Taking a beating, Volker Vierecke.

Two people are in a rigid hull inflatable outboard boat crashing almost vertically into a breaking wave.

National Highly Commended Award
– Individual Category –
A selfless gift, Carl Woodberry.

Two uniformed ambulance officers are tending to a young male patient on a gurney.

National Highly Commended Award
– Professional Category –
No ordinary job, Mathew Hayes, Freelance Photgrapher.

A smiling female firefighter is demonstrating how to hold a fire hose.

Queensland Highly Commended Award
– Professional Category –
Mount Archer bushfire, Chris Ison, The Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, QLD.

A bushfire truck is stopped in the foreground before a towering wall of fire burning the forest behind it.

Queensland Highly Commended Award
– Individual Category –
Respectful silence, Lynda McManus.

A middle-aged man and two emergency services workers contemplate sawn-up trees and wreckage.

New South Wales Highly Commended Award
– Individual Category –
SES Air Search Team, Ray Faggotter.

Five uniformed SES officers are walking towards a light aircraft parked on concrete tarmac.

National Highly Commended Award
Victorian Highly Commended Award
– Individual Category –
Lean on me, Blair Dellemijn.

A crowd of people including a number of CFA personnel are walking with arms around each other in an outdoor setting.

National Highly Commended Award
– Student Category –
Rollover rescue training, Mark Jesser, Euroa Secondary College.

Several SES officers are assisting the occupants of an overturned car at night.

National Winner & Tasmanian Highly Commended Award
– Individual Category –
Matt, the quiet achiever, Anthony Smith

Four children in yellow coveralls, helmets and goggles are walking in a parade of vehicles along an urban street.

National Highly Commended Award
ACT Highly Commended Award
– Individual Category –
One picture – two worlds, Michelle Jenkins.

In the foreground, two firefighters are framed in the wing mirror of a firetruck. In the background is smouldering burnt forest.

A selection of entries into the competition can be viewed online at p www.em.gov.au/volunteers