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With disaster recovery, slow and steady beats quick and easy.

Green Cross Australia CEO Mara Bun, writing on ABC's The Drum on 12 April 2012, presented an insightful and thought-proking analysis of post-disaster recovery efforts in both Australia and overseas.

Drawing on lessons learned from towns such as Greenberg, in the USA's tornado alley, and Australian responses to Cyclone Larry, the 2011 Queensland floods and Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires, Mara shows that community led, resilience focused recoveries are better long term solutions than quick and easy fixes.