Annette Plowman

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Annette Plowman is an accomplished, emergency management and community resilience leader with two decades of experience across health and humanitarian sectors. Her career includes senior roles with Australian Red Cross and St John Ambulance Northern Territory, with experience spanning executive leadership, emergency management, remote operations, and interagency coordination. Annette has led and contributed to complex emergency management and recovery work across Australia, including flood and cyclone recovery, disaster response to assist remote First Nations communities, pandemic operations, emergency workforce deployment and long-term resilience initiatives. Her current work in Far North Queensland local government focuses on recovery, resilience and disaster risk reduction following Tropical Cyclone Jasper and subsequent events. This includes developing practical tools and frameworks that support place-based recovery governance, community-led resilience and locally informed decision-making. Her practice is grounded in trauma-informed, culturally responsive and community-centred approaches with a focus on building and strengthening systems shaped by local knowledge, lived experience and community capability.

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