Described as a system failure, the immediate response to the Auckland floods raises big questions about disaster preparedness in the country's biggest city
I did a university paper on catrastophy's, either natural or man made. My research proved one thing in the four emergency's i researched , when an emergency that was greater in intensity that any emergency in the past, the emergency services were in most cases paralysed, simply because no one had experienced that kind of an event. What showed up with the latest cyclone to hit NZ was a classic example of administrative paralysis, but all is not lost, if the next emergency is no bigger than the one we just experienced, we can rest assured the high authority will be well armed to deal with it.
It is sad that Ann Perry has had all her great writing passed over in favour of digging up her past. If ever anyone earned forgiveness she did . There are times when journalism just shows a dark , underbelly lacking any humanity , or balance.
Thank you very much for following up on my comment. It is good to see some balance brought into a life that was exploited by the media for big sales reasons. I was a fifteen year-old when that case hit the headlines, and being a girl in the 1950s meant you weren't allowed to read the 'Bad Bits' in the newspaper. But the news did filter through. Murder was not common in the 1950s. It was also a male dominated world. The dirty minds were not those of the girls.
I did a university paper on catrastophy's, either natural or man made. My research proved one thing in the four emergency's i researched , when an emergency that was greater in intensity that any emergency in the past, the emergency services were in most cases paralysed, simply because no one had experienced that kind of an event. What showed up with the latest cyclone to hit NZ was a classic example of administrative paralysis, but all is not lost, if the next emergency is no bigger than the one we just experienced, we can rest assured the high authority will be well armed to deal with it.
It is sad that Ann Perry has had all her great writing passed over in favour of digging up her past. If ever anyone earned forgiveness she did . There are times when journalism just shows a dark , underbelly lacking any humanity , or balance.
Hi Mary - hopefully you’ll enjoy Claire Mabey’s piece on The Spinoff this morning then https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/14-04-2023/the-success-of-anne-perry-from-the-catastrophe-of-juliet-hulme
Thank you very much for following up on my comment. It is good to see some balance brought into a life that was exploited by the media for big sales reasons. I was a fifteen year-old when that case hit the headlines, and being a girl in the 1950s meant you weren't allowed to read the 'Bad Bits' in the newspaper. But the news did filter through. Murder was not common in the 1950s. It was also a male dominated world. The dirty minds were not those of the girls.