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A QUARTERLY OF NEW WRITI NG & IDEAS 35 RANDOM ACTS OF NATURE AND MAN Matthew Condon, Ashley Hay, Tom Griffiths, Lloyd Jones, Sally Neighbour, Sophie Cunningham, David Francis, Michael Gawenda, Kathy Marks, Nic Low, Mara Bún, Sidney Dekker SURVIVING

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RePORTAGeMaTTHeW Condon Flooding plains, bursting rivers, human sufferingsally neIGHbour life and death on the high seas

eSSAYMara bún The path to resiliencesopHIe CunnInGHaM disappearedsIdney dekker The meaning of a disasterMICHael GaWenda Informed consentToM GrIFFITHs The language of catastrophenIC loW ear to the groundkaTHy Marks When bystanders failjulIanne sCHulTZ life in a time of disastersjorGe soTIrIos europe’s Trojan horse

MeMOiRToM baMForTH How to survive an earthquakedaVId FranCIs no jesus manasHley Hay Walking underwaterlee koFMan passion in a time of warVIrGInIa peTers My mother and murdersydney sMITH occupying armies

FiCTiONnIkola GuroVIC babo ColIn MIlls Ghost town

POeTRYlIsa GorTon The sleeperslloyd jones suddenlyGeoFF paGe auntie May, 1953MarIa Takolander Crime scene investigation

PiCTuRe GAlleRYdean saFFron High water marks

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A quARTeRlY OF New wRiTiNG & ideAS35

RANdOM ACTS OF NATuRe ANd MANMatthew Condon, ashley Hay, Tom Griffiths,

lloyd jones, sally neighbour, sophie Cunningham, david Francis, Michael Gawenda, kathy Marks,

nic low, Mara bún, sidney dekker

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INTRODUCTION 9 Life in a time of disasters JULIANNE SCHULTZ: Counting the toll

REPORTAGE 12 Flooding plains, bursting rivers, human suffering MATTHEW CONDON: The 2010–11 Queensland floods

102 Life and death on the high seas SALLY NEIGHBOUR: Haunting a community

ESSAY 33 The path to resilience MARA BÚN: More haste, less speed

45 The language of catastrophe TOM GRIFFITHS: Forgetting, blaming and bursting into colour

58 Informed consent MICHAEL GAWENDA: The quest for a story

73 Disappeared SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM: This disaster was not televised

80 Ear to the ground NIC LOW: Learning to make a fuss

129 Europe’s Trojan horse JORGE SOTIRIOS: Portrait of a wounded nation

141 When bystanders fail KATHY MARKS: ‘I just did my job and minded my own business’

186 The meaning of a disaster SIDNEY DEKKER: Making sense of random events

MEMOIR 30 Walking underwater ASHLEY HAY: Salvage along the Plimsoll line

92 How to survive an earthquake TOM BAMFORTH: Moments of solidarity amid the turmoil

117 Passion in a time of war LEE KOFMAN: On the road with Saddam and Miriam

135 No Jesus man DAVID FRANCIS: The comfort of strangers

164 Occupying armies SYDNEY SMITH: The Chatham Islands and an incest family

175 My mother and murder VIRGINIA PETERS: Matters of life and death

FICTION 66 Ghost town COLIN MILLS

152 Babo NIKOLA GUROVIC

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POETRY 42 Suddenly LLOYD JONES

101 Crime scene investigation MARIA TAKOLANDER

126 Auntie May, 1953 GEOFF PAGE

185 The sleepers LISA GORTON

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The day the earth shook IAN LOWE

Tragic intimacy DAMON YOUNG

Surviving peace OLIVERA SIMIC

Ground cover ALAN VAARWERK

What does Fukushima mean? ADAM BROINOWSKI

Adapting for hope DOUG HENDRIE

Developing an Australian bushfire narrative CATHERINE GOUGH-BRADY

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JULIANNE SCHULTZ: Life in a time of disasters 11

REPORTAGE

Flooding plains, bursting rivers, human suffering

The 2010–11 Queensland floods

Matthew Condon

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This report was compiled using the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry’s online transcripts, witness statements and contemporaneous newspaper articles.

Matthew Condon is the editor of QWeekend magazine. He is the author, most recently, of Brisbane (NewSouth Books, 2010) and the editor of Fear, Faith & Hope: Remembering the long, wet summer of 2010-11 (UQP, 2011). His essay ‘The flood’ appeared in Griffith REVIEW 32.

MATTHEW CONDON: Flooding plains, bursting rivers, human suffering 29

MEMOIR

Walking underwater Salvage along the Plimsoll line

Ashley Hay

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Ashley Hay’s first novel, The Body in the Clouds (Allen & Unwin, 2010), was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, a New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award and a Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, and has been longlisted for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards. Her writing has appeared recently in Australian Geographic, The Australian and The Guardian, and previously in Griffith REVIEW editions 21, 30 and 34.

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1 See: http://www.mlandman.com/gbuildinginfo/leedplatinum.shtml#KS 2 See: http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/publications/pdfs/corporate/47461.pdf 3 Comments taken from Rockefeller funded review of ‘Sustainable development and long-term disaster recovery’ undertaken by the Institute for Sustainable Communities, released January 2010. http://www.iscvt.org/resources/documents/isc_report_to_hud.pdf 4 See: http://blog.fema.gov/2011/04/earth-day-2011-green-building-practices.html 5 See: http://www.dlgp.qld.gov.au/resources/speeches-and-presentations/building-dispute-resolution/qra-presentation.pdf 6 See: http://www.greenhouse2011.com/UserFiles/Presentation/presentationUrl_23.pdf 7 See: http://www.ag.gov.au/www/emaweb/rwpattach.nsf/VAP/(3A6790B96C927794AF1031D9395C5C20)~Economic_costs_of_natural_disasters_in_Australia.pdf/$file/Economic_costs_of_natural_disasters_in_Australia.pdf 8 http://www.disasterassist.gov.au/www/disasterassist/disasterassist.nsf/Page/Currentdisasters_CycloneYasi 9 See: www.cairns.com.au 10 Wylan Fleener interview, American Comebacks: Fleener Furniture and Flooring, Success Achievers Magazine http://www.successmagazine.com/american-comebacks-fleener-furniture-and-flooring/PARAMS/article/1493/channel/22 11 See: http://helpflowerdalenow.blogspot.com/2009/04/looking-towards-safer-and-more.html 12 For full interview with Beth Galante, see: http://www.greencrossaustralia.org/our-work/green-disaster-rebuilding-goes-global-build-it-back-green/live-from-the-oil-spill.aspx 13 http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/brumby-defends-bushfire-rebuilding-delays/story-e6frf7kx-1225827512111 14 See: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/school-resumes-at-all-but-three-schools-in-floodhit-queensland-20110124-1a1m6.html

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References available at www.griffithreview.com

Tom Griffiths is William Keith Hancock professor of history at the Australian National University, Canberra and the author of several books, including Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica (UNSW Press, 2007), which won the Queensland and New South Wales Premiers’ Literary Awards for Non-Fiction and was the joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History in 2008. His essay ‘A humanist on thin ice’ was published in Griffith REVIEW 29.

TOM GRIFFITHS: The language of catastrophe 57

ESSAY

Informed consent The quest for a story

Michael Gawenda

‘Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on

people’s vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse. Like the credulous widow who wakes up one day to find the charming young

man and all her savings gone, so the consenting subject of a piece of non-fiction writing learns – when the article or book appears – his hard lesson. Journalists justify their treachery

in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and the “public’s right to know”; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest

murmur about earning a living.’

– Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer (1990)

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In a career spanning three decades Michael Gawenda has won numerous journalism awards, including three Walkley Awards. He is the author of American Notebook: A Personal and Political Journey (2007) and Rocky and Gawenda: The Story of a Man and His Mutt (2009), both published by MUP. He was the inaugural director of the Centre for Advanced Journalism at the University of Melbourne, where he is now a senior research fellow.

MICHAEL GAWENDA: Informed consent 65

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Disappeared This disaster was not televised

Sophie Cunningham

‘On opening the bathroom door, I saw that the roof was off that part of the house and when I opened the door the ceiling of the room also disappeared; we then went to the

toilet which was next door to the bathroom and as I opened the door, I saw the outside wall of the toilet disappear; I then went to the main bedroom of the house and saw that the end outside wall had disappeared and that the side walls of the room were moving

under the pressure of the wind… My wife and I attempted to hold the bathroom and toilet doors shut and we placed our two children between our bodies to protect them.’

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The memories in this essay are drawn from archival records.

Sophie Cunningham is a former editor of Meanjin and the author, most recently, of Melbourne (NewSouth Books, 2011). Her novels, both published by Text, are Geography (2004) and Bird (2008). She is working on a book about Cyclone Tracy.

1 Northern Territory Archives Service, NTRS 2999, Reports by police officers of personal experiences relating to Cyclone Tracy, 1974–1975, BAKER, Detective Sergeant Thomas C. 2 NTAS, NTRS 2999, SMITH, Constable Dane. 3 NTAS, NTRS 2999, TOWNSEND, Constable G. 4 NTAS, NTRS 226, Typed transcripts of oral history interviews with “TS” prefix, 1979 – ct, O’SULLIVAN, Clem, TS 447. 5 NTAS, NTRS 226, Typed transcripts of oral history interviews with “TS” prefix, 1979 – ct, WILKIE, Ray, TS 675. All further quotes from Ray Wilkie come from this interview. 6 NTAS, NTRS 2999, SIMPSON, Sergeant C. 7 NTAS, NTRS 226, Typed transcripts of oral history interviews with “TS” prefix, 1979 – ct, SANDERS, Donald, TS 503. 8 NTAS, NTRS 226, Typed transcripts of oral history interviews with “TS” prefix, 1979 – ct, BEARE, Hedley, TS 917. All further quotes from Hedley Beare come from this interview. 9 NTAS, NTRS 226, Typed transcripts of oral history interviews with “TS” prefix, 1979 – ct, LAWRIE, Dawn, TS 505. 10 NTAS, NTRS 226, Typed transcripts of oral history interviews with “TS” prefix, 1979 – ct, COLE, Echo, TS 508. 11 NTAS, NTRS 226, Typed transcripts of oral history interviews with “TS” prefix, 1979 – ct, MCCANN, David, TS 451. All further quotes from David McCann come from this interview. 12 NTAS, NTRS 2999, STEPHENSON, Constable. 13 NTAS, NTRS 226, Typed transcripts of oral history interviews with “TS” prefix, 1979 – ct, FEJO, Lorna, TS 757. All further quotes from Lorna Fejo come from this interview. 14 NTAS, NTRS 2366, Steedman, Pete, Transcripts of interviews relating to Cyclone Tracy, 1975–1975, BOWDITCH, Jim, TS 7902. 15 NTAS, NTRS 226, Typed transcripts of oral history interviews with “TS” prefix, 1979 – ct, CAROLL Elizabeth, TS 762. 16 NTAS, NTRS 226, Typed transcripts of oral history interviews with “TS” prefix, 1979 – ct, ROBERTS, Sally, TS 567. 17 NTAS, NTRS 226, Typed transcripts of oral history interviews with “TS” prefix, 1979 – ct, DERMOUDY, Peter, TS 833.

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Ear to the ground Learning to make a fuss

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‘If I am what I have and if what I have is lost, who then am I?’ – Erich Fromm

‘He aha te mea nui? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.’

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How to survive an earthquake Moments of solidarity amid the turmoil

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Passion in a time of war On the road with Saddam and Miriam

Lee Kofman

‘I went off with my hands in my torn coat pockets. My overcoat too was becoming ideal.

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Europe’s Trojan horse Portrait of a wounded nation

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Jorge Sotirios’s Lonesome George, C’est Moi! is published by Big Sky Publishing. His essay ‘Lost city of the Amazon’ appeared in Griffith REVIEW 20: Cities on the Edge; this is his fifth publication in Griffith REVIEW.

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Originally from West Gippsland, in Victoria, David Francis has lived mostly in the US since 1985. His first novel, Agapanthus Tango (2001), was published internationally in seven languages and in the US as The Great Inland Sea. David’s second novel, Stray Dog Winter (2008), was named Australian Novel of the Year in the Australian Literary Review, was a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award and received the American Library Association Stonewall Literary Award for 2010. His writing has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Wet Ink, The Best Australian Stories and Harvard Review.

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The names of all victims in this piece have been changed.

Kathy Marks is The Independent’s Asia-Pacific correspondent and the author of Pitcairn: Paradise Lost (HarperCollins, 2008), which won the Ned Kelly Award and was shortlisted for the CAL Waverley Library Award. Her essays have appeared in Griffith REVIEW editions 28 and 29, and been included in The Best Australian Essays.

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Real characters and events inspired this story.

Nikola Gurovic was born in Yugoslavia and is a freelance journalist living in Brisbane. He previously worked for Television Sarajevo and Radio Free Europe in Prague and Washington. His memoirs have appeared in Griffith REVIEW editions 22 and 27.

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Sydney Smith is the director of the Victorian Mentoring Service for Writers. Her writing has previously appeared in Griffith REVIEW editions 17, 22 and 26. The Lost Woman, a memoir, will be published by Text in June 2012.

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Virginia Peters’ short stories have appeared in various publications, including Sleepers, Overland, New Australian Stories and Kill Your Darlings. She has an MA in writing from UTS and is living in Oxford with her partner and three children, where she is working on a non-fiction book in the area of true crime for her PhD in creative writing.

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The sleepers (from the Futures Museum) Lisa Gorton

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Lisa Gorton is an award-winning poet and the author of an acclaimed novel for children, Cloudland (Pan Macmillan, 2008). She was the 2010 poet in residence at the Australian Poetry Centre.

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Sidney Dekker is professor and director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University. He is the author of several bestselling books on system failure, human error, ethics and governance, including most recently Patient Safety: A Human Factors Approach (CRC Press, 2011).

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