[LINK] National Emergency Alert System (was ABC Mobile Web Site Failed Accessibility Test

[Richard Chirgwin]

Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>> Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>>> Tom Worthington wrote:
>>>> At 04:44 PM 22/03/2009, George Bray wrote:
>>>>> ... Since when is it the ABC's job to provide a national emergency
>>>>> alert
>>>>> system?  ... 
> <snip>
>>
>>> What is needed is "emergency bulletins" to be issued by the
>>> appropriate agency
>>> and read/transmitted verbatim by the ABC and other stations,
>>> in conjunction with community alarms which should prompt people
>>> to tune into the radio/check websites: Perhaps a special
>>> homepage/message
>>> should be displayed across relevant government and other websites.
>>
>> OK, so the "community alarm" aspect is lacking (not the ABC's
>> responsibility). But lots of the commentary about the ABC's role, and
>> what it does, makes me wonder if it's not more a reflection of listening
>> to 702 in Sydney when the emergency is in Victoria.
>>
> <snip>
> 
> No, my comments are not based on listening to any radio stations during the
> recent emergency, and rarely if ever to 702 at other times. They were
> based on
> the ABC's own comments about the Newcastle disasters....and past experience
> about the fires circling Sydney (in central coast/blue mountains) a few
> years
> ago....perhaps that lead to improvements in NSW.

Well.

"I don't listen to 702 but I know it doesn't provide adequate emergency
broadcasting" hardly seems tenable.

During summer, Sydney gets regular updates on non-critical bushfires
(because I do lots of bushwalking, there's plenty of radio-checking all
the time), and 702 breaks into stuff like sports broadcasts if there's
an alert issued.

While around the Southern Tablelands this summer, I heard frequent
updates of fires such as those in the Budawangs.

RC

> 
> The comments about the Websites, were based on what I posted to link
> during the Victorian Heat Wave.
> 
> Marghanita