The Australian Journal of Emergency Management Marvborouah- Bushfires: On Mondav 14 Januarv 1985.. a dav, of total fire ban throuohout- the State of Victoria, a large number of serious fires occurred in country areas, continuing in some cases into Tuesdav, Armv,. oersonnel were emoloved. in fuel reduction activities (to contain the fires and limit losses). In the Maryborough Region alone the fire took one life, caused 100 other casualties, destroyed 101 homes and other inhabited dwellings, devastated hundreds of farm and holiday propenies and killed approximately 40.000 sheep. Cover: Winning entry of the 'Emergency Volunteers in Action' phorqraphic competition, 'Devastation' by Angela Trapani, Senior Photographer with The Shepparton News. The shot features Victorian Country Fire Officerz Peter Martini, cooling-off after battling a house fire in Shepparron East in DKember 2001. Contents Vol 17 1 No 3 1 November ZOO2 Please note that contributions to the Australian loumal of Emergency Managemenr are reviewed. Academic papers (denoted bv- GB- ) are peer reviewed to appropriate academic standards bv The Australian independent; qualified expea. Journal of Emergency Training can be a recruitment and retention 4 Management tool for emergency service volunteers Vul 17. No 3. November 2W2 I55N 1324 1540 This article profiles a research study of Tasmania's Volunteer Ambulance Officers indicating training may be PUBUSHER The Aurrrol~anJournalo~Emprgcncy Manngemm a strateeic- recruitment and retention solution hel~ine. - to s the officul journal of Emergency Management stahilise Tasmania's emergency rural health workforce. Australra and s the nauon3 mart htehlv rated management industry in Auaralta. It provides The implementation of the incident control 8 acces to information and knowledge for system in NSW. Span of Control and an active Emergency Management research community and practitionen of Management by Objectives Emergency Managcmcnt. Jennifer Bean examines the implementation of EDKOR-IN-CHIEF management by objectives (MBO) and span of control David Templeman. Director General. (SO0 concepts in the context of the Incident Command Emergency Management Australla. System in NSW AlEM ADVISORY COMMITTEE Louisa Graham. Oke of Emergent). Sernces Commissioner. Melbourne Flood warning reviews in North America 17 Christine Jenkinson. Emergency and Europe: Statements and Silence Management Australia John Handmer examines the main themes, issues and Roger Jones,TEM Consulunts. MI Macedon gaps in the many recent reviews of flood warning Char Keys. NSW State Emergency Service systems in North America and Europe are presented Robert Lee, Emergency Management Australla Graeme Nicholas. Queensland Emergency in this paper. Services David Parsom. Sydney Water Corporation. Sydney Perceptions by Counter Disaster personnel of 25 Michael Tarrant. Erncrgcncy Management Australia the risks of bulk transport of dangerous goods along the Brisbane-Gladstone tmponcorridor PUBUSHER & EDITORIAL TEAM Grey Worldwide Canberra This article presents the results of research conducted in Manager, Mark Gadlrey Queensland with Counter Disaster personnel stationed Editorial Coordinator, Anita Cleaver along the Brishane to Gladstone road-rail conidor. Researcher. Margaret Wallis Design and Typesetting by Whlubang An CIRCULATION Perceived change in risk of narural disasters 34 Published on the law day of August. November. Februan, and Mav each war Over 5.000 coo~u caused by global warming Chris De Freitas examines the extent to which the expectation of the increasing frequency and severity COPYRIGHT of extreme climate events is justified. Matonal in The AustralianJnrml olEmprgmry Manaprnr is protected under the Commonwalrh Copyright Act 1968. No material may be reproduced in pan or in whole without witten consent Imm the copyright holders The views in this journal are Post Disaster Surveys: experience and methodology 39 not necessarily the vlews al Emergency David King questions whether there is a right or Management Auaralu. standard research methodology for rapid response SUBMISSIONS post disaster studies. The Autral~anJournnlojEm~rgmcy Monngema welcomes submlsslons Please contact us on ajcm@ema gavau for a copy ol our Contnbuton' Guldellnes Antcles for pubhcauon may be fonvarded to The Australian Journal of The Politics of Emergency Response and 48 I Recovery: Preliminary Observations on Taiwan's 921 Earthquake This paper presents preliminary results of a study on the organisational and institutional response to the 921 or Chi Chi earthquake. FOREWORD Lessons from violent tragedy Rob Cameron discusses the impact of the Bali terrorist attack on Australia's emergency management arrangements The observations after the domestic arena. Any likelihood of the 11 September attacks that prompted need for a multi-agency, multi- Rod McKinnon's argument for the jurisdictional and possibly greater integration of Crisis and international response indicates our Consequence Management have been arrangements must be effective and reinforced by experience and national well understood by all those likely to ellort following the Bali bombings. be involved. The requirement for With the overriding concern of all ongoing inter-agency contacts and involved being the rapid provision of partnerships entails an appreciation of appropriate care to those injured and the interdependencies of respective the welfare of the families and friends agencies' roles. of all victims and casualdes, effective To ensure the experiences and coordination, cooperadon and observations of the Bali response to communication between all the date are captured and made available agencies involved was a premium to the crisis and consequence requirement. As noted earlier, the management communities, EMA has location of the bombings outside commenced a series of debriefs. The In the Summer 2001-2002 edition of Australia, together with the numbers Candle lighting first was held at EMMt Macedon ceremonyat the this journal. Rod McKinnon, the of casualties from each Australian campus on 8 November and focussed Director of Planning and Operations jurisdiction meant that agencies who largely on opportunities for Service 'Or at EMA discussed the implications for may not have had such a prominent vicrims of the Bali improvement in inter-agency linkages. atrack Australia's emergency managemem role in an event that occurred inside Preliminary feedback indicates a need arrangements of the terroria attacks our national borders were now very the G~~~ Hall of to develop, implement and exercise a parliament ~ouse, on the World Trade Cemre in New important contributors to, if not national plan for the management of Canberra, Australia York and the Pentagon in Washington managers of, key phases of the incidents involving evacuation and on 24 October on I I September 2001. He high- response and recovery processes. 2002. lighted the opportunity for Australia's repatriation to Australia of large In each phase of the Australian numbers of injured and deceased. emergency managers lo review our response to the 12 October bombings The next acdvity in the debrief process arrangements and the level of there was and still are a significant will be in Danvin in December and preparedness for events of a similar number of public and private agencies will focus more closely on learning nature and foreshadowed a wries of with responsibilities to discharge and from the experiences and observations lessons learned seminars to be hosted contributions to make. The agencies of those more closely associated with by EMA with guen speakers arranged and companies involved accomplished the initial response. The reports from from the United States. some remarkable achievements the EMA-convened debriefs will The violent terrorist bombings in Bali For example, by early Wednesday contribute to Federal Cabinet5 decision on 12 October tested Australia's following the Saturday night bombing. for a whole of government review of capability for managing disaster all Australians requiring hospitalisation the response to the bombings to be events impacting on Australians had been evacuated and were completed by early 2003. travelling overseas. At the time of receiving care in Australian hospitals - writing, the explosions and subse- a noteworthy ellon. As the response Learning from the Bali bombings quent fire ou~sidePaddy's Bar and the condnues and the recovery work needs to be reflected in our plans and Sari Nightclub in the popular tourist gathers momentum, it is becoming arrangements while the experience is destination of Kuta in Bali killed increasingly clear that this event has current and our observations fresh. 67 Australians with the Department of far reaching consequences for families We have an opportunity now to use Foreign Affairs and Trade holding and communities, and that a sustained the experiences of those involved in very serious concerns for another 20 multi-agency recovery effon will the response to and recovery from who remain unaccounted for be required. both the 11 September attacks and Indonesian authorities continue to the Bali bombings to ensure that advise that the total death toll is So what can we learn where required, our arrangements expected to be approximately 180. from this tragedy? are improved. We need to learn from This is the first time Australian Since the attacks in the United States violent tragedy citizens in such numbers have been on 11 September. Australia has victims of deliberate terrorist acts remained on a heightened security