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Originally Posted by Targan
Here in Perth the only drills I ever did at school were fire drills. Australia is not a very paranoid country and we tend to be very laid back as a society. We take the threat of fires pretty seriously but that is about it. Perhaps we should be a bit more on guard in this changing world we live in. Terrorists have said many times in the media that they consider Australia to be a target.
There are parts of Australia (the northern half) where cyclones are a yearly occurrence so I guess schools in those parts have the equivalent of tornado drills. We get a lot more early warning for cyclones than people in the US would get for tornadoes though.
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I guess many forms of emergency preparedness could translate into useable methods for different types of crisis.
Up here I fel like there is no shred of preparedness at all for the most part .Even trying to allocate funds for such measures usually meets negativety and indifference in our politics .
Guess we will never get hit in the minds of our benevolent rulers ..