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CEO’s Message – Lote Notes – July 2025 NAIDOC Week

The Next Generation: Strength, Vision and Legacy

CEO’s Message – Lote Notes – July 2025 Edition

As we mark NAIDOC Week 2025, we join the nation in celebrating 50 years of honouring the world’s oldest living culture. We reflect on the rich history, acknowledge enduring achievements, and recognise the ongoing value and contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This year’s theme, “The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy,” resonates deeply with our values at Lote Consulting. It speaks to the importance of creating meaningful legacies, empowering emerging leaders, recognising the transformative potential of communities, and learning from the depth of collective experience and wisdom.

At Lote, we believe that integrating traditional perspectives strengthens our work in fire safety, risk, and security. Traditional knowledge systems offer invaluable insights that not only inform but also elevate our professional practice. By embracing and respecting these perspectives, we honour a powerful legacy and help foster innovative approaches that serve both current and future communities.

As we reflect on these lessons, I am also reminded of our own journey. Lote Consulting began with a bold vision: to make the world safe and secure through rigorous technical expertise, clear communication, and a people-first approach. Today, we are delivering on that vision across fire safety, security, and now expanding into cybersecurity and compliance services for critical infrastructure and government.

We are supporting major projects here and abroad, gaining relevant industry certifications, preparing for national and global growth, and evolving our systems to serve our clients with more transparency and intelligence than ever before. All this while holding true to our values of integrity, excellence, and continuous learning.

To our remarkable team: your passion and commitment fuel everything we do. As we celebrate NAIDOC Week, let us reaffirm our commitment to learning from the past, engaging with the present, and building a future that reflects the strength, vision, and legacy of all Australians.

Let’s use this moment to listen, learn, and lead.

Warm regards,

Dr. Maher Magrabi

Chief Executive Officer
Lote Consulting

Fire | Risk | Security | Cyber

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Lote Notes Reading Guide

This July, Lote Consulting proudly shares our 3rd Newsletter for the year, Issue 3, 007. During this month, our edition aligns with NAIDOC Week, which follows the theme, The Next Generation: Strength, Vision and Legacy. This is an important time that calls us to reflect on the achievements, recognition and rights for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and how we can all contribute meaning towards a brighter future. In this edition, we bring you another range of articles from Fire Safety and Security, as well as a themed piece for NAIDOC Week.

The first article, Key Updates to Bushfire Safety Planning in NSW by Joyce Van details important updates introduced by the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS). This is geared towards building and development guidelines for bushfire prone areas in the Addendum for Bushfire Protection 2025, commencing on 4 April 2025. These changes are focused on the construction requirements for new primary and secondary schools.

Following this, Bushfire Risk and Resilience, BESS and HV Substations by Yamin Ahmed focuses on the bushfire risks associated with the deployment of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and high-voltage substations in Australia. Particularly, within remote or bushfire-prone regions. This article discusses some risks such as thermal runaway and fire propagation in BESS units and asset vulnerability.

On the security front, Password Safety: The Key to Protecting your Digital World by Farjad Mahmud, shares the critical need for strengthening our security, and managing passwords in the fast growing landscape of the digital world. Security leaks and breaches have been rising, however this article provides practical advice on how users can tighten their accounts and keep their information safe.

Critical Infrastructure Risk Management, Essentials of CI by Jed Hugill and Dr Maher Magrabi, draws on the importance of resilience in Australia’s critical infrastructure (CI) amidst climate volatility, cyber threads, and growing interdependencies. This article highlights the significance of the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (SOCI Act) that mandates the implementation of Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program. (CIRMP).

'True resilience means anticipating disruption and adapting to change without compromising service delivery or public trust.'

For our article on NAIDOC Week, Abdul Qavi Siddique and Zahina Shah, review a topical book, Fire Country by Victor Steffensen. This article,

Fire Country: Learning and Listening to Aboriginal Cultural Practices, discusses the importance and need for traditional Aboriginal fire management applied through a process known as Cool Burning detailed by Steffensen. This piece draws on the ways Cool Burning can be applied within Fire Safety and the context of Bushfires which have long been a significant issue in Australia.

To access previous articles please visit our website.

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