The first fifteen years: Australia's Natural Disasters Organisation.
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TextLanguage: ENG Series: Occasional paper series ; 4Publication details: 1991Description: 41p., 113 refsReport number: Academic; UNE-OP-4Subject: Crisis managementSubject: Disaster planningSubject: Emergency planningSubject: In the study of government structures and processes, the idea of focal points has emerged in relation to public trading or business enterprises. This paper looks briefly at this usage, and then seeks to translate it to the very different context of central government structures for disaster planning and co-ordination. The particular illustration used is the Australian Natural Disasters Organisation (NDO) which emerged in the 1970s in the heat of Darwin's Cyclone Tracy experience. Since Cyclone Tracy, the NDO has been the nearest thing Australia has had to a disaster focal point. The paper traces the history of the development of NDO, documenting its role in disaster planning and administration. It concludes that while NDO performs some focal point functions, some internally-generated factors and some factors emanating from both the Australian constitutional system and from the military environment within which it operates, have prevented NDO from doing so in a fuller or more rounded sense
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Crisis management
Disaster planning
Emergency planning
In the study of government structures and processes, the idea of focal points has emerged in relation to public trading or business enterprises. This paper looks briefly at this usage, and then seeks to translate it to the very different context of central government structures for disaster planning and co-ordination. The particular illustration used is the Australian Natural Disasters Organisation (NDO) which emerged in the 1970s in the heat of Darwin's Cyclone Tracy experience. Since Cyclone Tracy, the NDO has been the nearest thing Australia has had to a disaster focal point. The paper traces the history of the development of NDO, documenting its role in disaster planning and administration. It concludes that while NDO performs some focal point functions, some internally-generated factors and some factors emanating from both the Australian constitutional system and from the military environment within which it operates, have prevented NDO from doing so in a fuller or more rounded sense
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