Book contents
- In Their Time of NeedAustralia’s overseas emergency relief operations, 1918–2006
- The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations
- In Their Time of Need
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Prologue: ‘A drop in the ocean’
- Part I Australia’s disaster policies
- Part II Australia’s disaster relief operations
- 4 Combating the Spanish Lady
- 5 A tale of two mountains
- 6 A sustained relief effort
- 7 Goodwill in a time of tension
- 8 Help for the highlands
- 9 Back to Bali
- 10 Regional assistance
- 11 Disaster relief in post-independence Papua New Guinea, 1975–94
- 12 ‘The unleashed fury of Mother Nature’
- 13 ‘An outstanding overall effort’
- 14 Cyclone relief in the Pacific, 1990–93
- 15 El Niño drought relief
- 16 Famine relief amid chaos
- 17 Ples bagarap
- 18 ‘The worst in living memory’
- 19 Wave of destruction
- 20 The road to Banda Aceh
- 21 ‘We saw the worst of it’
- 22 Getting the job done
- 23 ‘Here is your loved one back, and this is their name’
- 24 ‘In their time of need’
- 25 The ‘Day of Judgement’
- 26 ‘They have won our hearts forever’
- Conclusion Australia’s overseas emergency relief operations, 1918–2006
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
- Book part
10 - Regional assistance
Disasters in Solomon Islands and Tonga, 1977–82
from Part II - Australia’s disaster relief operations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 September 2017
Book contents
- In Their Time of NeedAustralia’s overseas emergency relief operations, 1918–2006
- The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations
- In Their Time of Need
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Prologue: ‘A drop in the ocean’
- Part I Australia’s disaster policies
- Part II Australia’s disaster relief operations
- 4 Combating the Spanish Lady
- 5 A tale of two mountains
- 6 A sustained relief effort
- 7 Goodwill in a time of tension
- 8 Help for the highlands
- 9 Back to Bali
- 10 Regional assistance
- 11 Disaster relief in post-independence Papua New Guinea, 1975–94
- 12 ‘The unleashed fury of Mother Nature’
- 13 ‘An outstanding overall effort’
- 14 Cyclone relief in the Pacific, 1990–93
- 15 El Niño drought relief
- 16 Famine relief amid chaos
- 17 Ples bagarap
- 18 ‘The worst in living memory’
- 19 Wave of destruction
- 20 The road to Banda Aceh
- 21 ‘We saw the worst of it’
- 22 Getting the job done
- 23 ‘Here is your loved one back, and this is their name’
- 24 ‘In their time of need’
- 25 The ‘Day of Judgement’
- 26 ‘They have won our hearts forever’
- Conclusion Australia’s overseas emergency relief operations, 1918–2006
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
- Book part
- Type
- Chapter
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- In their Time of NeedAustralia's Overseas Emergency Relief Operations 1918–2006, pp. 140 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017