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Monday 16th July 2018Today’s guests:Mark Crossweller –  Head of the National Resilience Task ForceJo Dodds – Councillor at Bega Valley Shire CouncilRob Roggema – Professor of Sustainable Urban Environments UTSAre global climate disruptions finding us unprepared for some emergencies, even in countries with high tech warning systems?  Psychologists say it is bad to paralyse people with frightening prospects.  The antidote is to BE PREPARED.Mark CrosswellerMark Crossweller  made a raw admission  about unsuccessful emergency responses in the Canberra and 2009 Victorian bush fires.  He said that communications with the public and media need to be a lot earlier.  He was speaking at the NCCARF Climate Adaptation Conference.  As Craig Lapsley says “There will be an increase in emergency days and disaster means you have to repurpose the city. People need to know where to go”   Jo DoddsJo Dodds witnessed the Tathra Bushfire this year and challen