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Five lessons from Fukushima
Alarmist talk of a nuclear crisis in Japan reveals just how fearful modern society has become. The world’s media has spent the past four days...
Japan: a catastrophe, not a disaster movie
Forget the Hollywood-style finger-pointing about human ‘arrogance’ and ‘powerlessness’ – we can overcome and learn from...
Insurers asked to show compassion for Queensland home owners
Anna Bligh has called on insurers to show compassion to policy-holders who have lost their homes and may not be covered for floods. Fear and grief...
Goodwill and a concerted national effort needed
The year 1864, just five years after Queensland separated from NSW, was a particularly difficult year for the fledgling state. Severe flooding...
How dams became a dirty word
The 1m difference between Brisbane's 1974 local flood peak height of 5.5m and Thursday morning's peak of 4.5m can partly be credited to the Wivenhoe...
Disaster and community spirit
Yesterday, I woke to silence. Twenty-four hours earlier, I wondered if I might wake to the sound of water lapping underneath my bed as floodwaters...
Has Brisbane forgotten to build for the wet?
There's a myth that you often hear about old Brisbane houses, that they were built on stilts for ventilation, so that air could swirl under them in...
State of crisis: a politician in a disaster zone
It's so easy to bugger up a disaster, as a politician. Keep away entirely, and you're condemned for insensitivity (consider Mark Latham, hounded in...
Disasters bring out best and worse
An engineering company that makes equipment for army vehicles is ransacked. Two men are disturbed breaking into a convenience store. Three people are...
Haiti, Going Forward
It has been an agonizing year since Haiti’s earthquake. Despite all of the pledges of help, and vows to do things differently, there are more...
Why BP is not very slick in an emergency
When companies adhere to the rituals of risk-aversion, they lose sight of how to deal with real emergencies. Now we can see the consequences. The...
Children are best left with their families
The horrific situation for Haitian children in the aftermath of the earthquake raises the difficult question of what can be done to make sure they...
Haiti's poor are part of solution
The Haiti earthquake has caused immeasurable suffering in what was already the western hemisphere's poorest nation. The challenges of rebuilding...
How did their tragedy become All About Us?
There’s a danger that giving to Haiti has become a way of advertising our decency rather than helping the desperate. How did giving aid to...
To rescue Haitians, we need to take risks
Since the beginning of time, catastrophes have represented a major challenge to our humanity. And history suggests that, most of the time, disasters...
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