A uniquely Queensland story of strong disaster management in the context of climate change is the focus of a new Griffith University produced film.
The 50-minute documentary Dealing with Disasters: The Silent Achievers in Public Health provides a compelling look at the efforts of Queensland’s public health workers, and those they collaborated with, to manage a large-scale and intense set of disasters: the Summer of Sorrow.
In 2010-2011, eighty per cent of the enormous state of Queensland was beset by severe flooding and cyclones. Over close to a year, public health workers, in collaboration with emergency management, local government, and the NGO sector, worked tirelessly to prevent loss of life, outbreaks of disease, and other harms.
“With our changing climate increasingly creating more extreme events and disasters, there is more need than ever to be able to manage those disasters,” says Professor Cordia Chu, the film’s co-producer from Griffith’s Centre for Environment and
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