Like many local Councils across the world, Brimbank City Council has one eye on the immediate community support required in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic, and one on the longer term future, with the aim of emerging stronger as part of its strategic recovery.
Brimbank has always been particularly vulnerable to a prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, with pre-existing socio-economic challenges providing fertile ground for the virus to spread through our working class, multicultural and vulnerable communities.
These pre-existing vulnerabilities have been exploited by the pandemic, leading Brimbank to remain at the epi-centre of Victoria and Australia's COVID crisis through ongoing high numbers of active and overall cases.
The pandemic may have reconfirmed the area's challenges, but it has also re-focussed efforts of Council and State and Federal Government on the strategic imperatives needed to support the growth of Brimbank
Brimbank has had a whole-of-Council COVID-19 Response and Recovery Strategy in place since April which has seen Council realign and provide unprecedented essential service support to the community.
