History of the Australian Peoples Survival League
Introduction
Our story begins with our founders coming together in 2020.
The recent Covid19 pandemic conditions thrust upon the world, had exposed how vulnerable supply lines are and how people can quickly become vulnerable, so they set about in building an advanced and sophisticated association to build resilience, community and mutuality. They combined strengths in aid of real to life survival scenarios.
Their efforts combined learning and growth whilst dynamically evolving for the benefit of society. Further to the pandemic situation, a change in the frequency of natural disasters meant that the focus is now on import civil defence for crises, because Australia's emergency services do not have enough people to manage large scale incidents. This was identified through various state and federal royal commission report(s).
The founders love doing good for the community, they did this by continuation of the positive aspects of training and their sense of service to the community. These purposes were set to be dynamic and innovative to ensure the league grows for the better good of the communities it serves. Those communities expanded nation wide. A relevant new name and focused purpose was established. Our primary founder determined that the Pandemic and increasing local disasters had changed the world as we know it. Never in recent history has being better informed and organised become more important. We need to build supply and support for any crises. We combined, to deliver resources and information in a civil defence structure to build better outcomes in maintaining the way of life, for all Australians. This is a way of living we value dearly.
A benevolent supporter and some well known companies and local governments also commenced providing support or funding, strongly believing in delivering our mission outcomes, going forward.
2021
During the June 2021 storms in the local government area of Yarra Ranges in Victoria, a small group of founding members responded in their local area to assist people in need. They provided the following:
- Emergency Information
- Guidance and assistance in the situation unfolding
- Updates to power and communication outages
- Food preservation techniques (rather than throwing out fridge food, when power is out after several hours or multiple day(s))
- Assessment observations of any other risks, after the storm. Example: (One day later, trees were still falling on properties, power lines, roads and footpaths, with hazard assessments to corner/contain and provide information to local authorities
- Delivered some food aid to some very needy families who needed food and supplies, by networking between members and non members for efficient and safe delivery to the affected long term disaster zone, all before any official major emergency services stepped in or other support groups acted
Power was out for weeks in the storm ravaged area, requiring interstate assistance and the Australian Army being deployed, whom delivered much needed power generators to long term affected homes without power in mountainous and rural areas.
The entire process gave rise to their civil defence volunteers, providing leadership, information and advice in crises affected areas. It also reminded us, that our members contribute other countless assistance over the years in supporting their local community. This becomes an important area of focus, to have a higher level of help to maintain societal quality of life. Members are heroic where heroism need not be dangerous, but in the form of trained civility. Australians are fantastic people who support each other and our members follow in the spirit of what we call the 'Aussie spirit', engaging help, whilst receiving their training and ensuring their safety to act.
2024 -Civil defence and name change
Our organisation changed it's name to better reflect our purpose and mission, the word "peoples" was implemented to recognise the vast diversity of our membership and the people of Australia we serve, consisting of many first nations cultures and multi cultural backgrounds in welcoming all Australian people inclusively.
We also narrowed our focus in line with our mission, that mission is to step in only when it becomes evident that a serious large crises is before us and society needs to be protected. Civil Defence then became the core element of our extraordinary volunteers focus marking a significant change, which enables our members to respond only if the crisis is significant and there is insufficient emergency service agencies or a lack of a response.
We also commenced Off-Grid Communication models being investigated and tested in conjunction with civil defence. This enables wider communication to ensure communication ability when the grid is down, making it a key part of our activities.
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