The Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC) is the industry body for fire, land management and emergency service organisations in Australia and New Zealand.
AFAC was established by its members in 1993 to collaborate on matters of international, national and regional importance. By sharing each others extensive capabilities, experience and knowledge AFAC members expect communities to benefit from the economies of scale, reduction in the duplication of effort and the strengthening of the industry capability.
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Vision
Fire and emergency services strengthened through sharing, collaboration and innovation.
AFAC Council
The AFAC Council is made up of the most senior representative of Emergency Service Member organisations. It meets twice a year and has overall control of the organisation through:
- Electing seven Directors of the Board (including President, Vice-President and Treasurer) to form the Board
- Confirming the organisations strategic direction
- Receiving annual reports on achievement of strategies and priorities
- Determining policy for the organisation
- Endorsing AFAC Positions
- Determining the annual membership fee
AFAC Board
Elected by the AFAC Council, the Board provides governance oversight to the effective management of the organisation. The Board meets bi-monthly.
- President: Lee Johnson AFSM, Commissioner, Queensland Fire and Rescue Service
- Vice-President: Greg Mullins AFSM, Commissioner, Fire and Rescue NSW
- Treasurer: Bob Conroy, Executive Director, Office of Environment and Heritage NSW
- Director: Mary Barry, Chief Executive Officer, Victoria State Emergency Service
- Director: Greg Nettleton, Chief Officer, South Australian Country Fire Service
- Director: Mark Crosweller, Commissioner, ACT Emergency Services Agency
- Director: Grant Lupton, Chief Fire Officer & Chief Executive Officer, South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service
AFAC Chief Executive Officer: Naomi Brown
Executive Assistant to CEO: Lynette White Ph: +61 3 9418 5206
Current Members
AFAC Members are drawn from every state and territory in Australia and New Zealand and from around the Pacific. It is their accumulated knowledge, strength of experience and desire to learn that creates the foundation on which AFAC continues to build.
The membership of AFAC comprises those organisations that have responsibility for the delivery of land management, community safety, emergency services, or emergency support services. With a career workforce of over thirty thousand employees, and over 200,000 volunteers, AFAC members operate in a dynamic, complex and challenging environment.
AFAC Members:
- AirServices Australia
- ACT Emergency Services Agency
- ACT Parks and Conservation Service
- ACT State Emergency Service
- Attorney General's Department National Security Capability Development Division
- Bushfires NT
- Country Fire Authority, Victoria
- Country Fire Service, South Australia
- Department of Community Safety Queensland Government - Queensland Fire and Rescue Service
- Office of Environment and Heritage, NSW
- Department of Environment & Conservation, Western Australia
- Department of Environment and Natural Resources, SA
- Department of Environment and Resource Management, QLD
- Department of Sustainability & Environment, Victoria
- Emergency Management Queensland - State Emergency Service
- FESA State Emergency Service - Western Australia
- Fire & Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia
- Forests New South Wales
- ForestrySA
- Forestry Tasmania
- Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board, Melbourne
- New South Wales State Emergency Service
- Fire and Rescue New South Wales
- New South Wales Rural Fire Service
- New Zealand Fire Service
- New Zealand National Rural Fire Authority
- Northern Territory Emergency Service
- Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Service
- Parks Victoria
- Parks & Wildlife, Tasmania
- South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service
- South Australian State Emergency Service
- Tasmania Fire Service
- Tasmania State Emergency Service
- Victoria State Emergency Service
AFAC Affiliate Members:
- Australasian Road Rescue Organisation (ARRO)
- Bureau of Meteorology
- CSIRO Forestry & Forest Products
- Forestry Plantations Queensland
- Hong Kong Fire Services Department
- Melbourne Water
- New Zealand Department of Conservation
- New Zealand Fire and Rescue Services Industry Training Organisation (FRSITO)
- Pacific Islands Fire Service Association (PIFSA)
- Papua New Guinea Fire Service
- South Australian Fire and Emergency Services Commission (SAFECOM)
