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More than a decade after the Black Saturday fires, it's time we got serious about long-term disaster recovery planning

  • Written by Lisa Gibbs, Academic, Population Health, The University of Melbourne
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Ten years on from the 2009 Victorian Black Saturday fires, in which 173 people died, 3,500 buildings were destroyed and entire townships were wiped out, about two thirds of people from highly impacted communities reported they felt “mostly” or “fully recovered”.

Their perceptions of community recovery were much...

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