[LINK] Resilient Broadband Network needed for Australia

Rick Welykochy rick at praxis.com.au
Thu May 8 11:55:02 AEST 2008


Tom Worthington wrote:

> The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has released the report 
> "Taking a punch: Building a more resilient Australia" 
> <http://www.aspi.org.au/publications/publication_details.aspx?ContentID=165&pubtype=6>. 
> It argues that recent disaster planning has overemphasized terrorist 
> attacks, which are unlikely and more effort should be devoted to natural 
> disasters, which occur frequently in Australia. They suggest the 
> community needs to be resilient to deal with disaster themselves, rather 
> than assuming that if they call 000 someone will come to help.

This brings to mind infrastructure problems that have arisen in the USA,
after they rolled federal disaster management into terror response, presumably
under the auspices of the Homeland Security and Patriot Acts.

This has resulted in double-edged disasters like hurricane Katrina. Although
in Katrina's case, there is evidence of willful inaction on the part of FEMA,
and in particular, Mr Bush.

One wonders how many resources have been squandered in Australia to protect
us from overstated terrorist threat. The amount spent on security at APEC
was OTT, and can be attributed to the presence of a single participant.



cheers
rickw




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