Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 094

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A photograph of volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office and Red Cross working at the registration table in Cowles Stadium. The stadium was set up as temporary accommodation for those displaced by the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 080

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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office working at the reception area of Cowles Stadium. The stadium was set up by Civil Defence as temporary accommodation for those displaced by the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 084

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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office working at the reception area of Cowles Stadium. The stadium was set up by Civil Defence as temporary accommodation for those displaced by the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 113

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A photograph of volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office setting up a table in Cowles Stadium on Pages Road. The stadium was set up as a Civil Defence Report Centre after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 095

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A photograph of volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office and Red Cross working at the registration table in Cowles Stadium. The stadium was set up as temporary accommodation for those displaced by the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 118

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A photograph of a volunteer from the Wellington Emergency Management Office unpacking supplies at Cowles Stadium. The stadium was set up as a Civil Defence Report Centre after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 114

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A photograph of volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office setting in Cowles Stadium on Pages Road. The stadium was set up as a Civil Defence Report Centre after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 079

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A photograph of volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office talking to members of the Red Cross in Cowles Stadium. The stadium was set up by Civil Defence as temporary accommodation for those displaced by the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 078

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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office working at the reception area of Cowles Stadium. The stadium was set up by Civil Defence as temporary accommodation for those displaced by the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

Jim Baltaxe WEMO Photograph 015

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A photograph of emergency management staff meeting outside the Christchurch Art Gallery. The art gallery was used as the temporary Civil Defence headquarters after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. In the background, a New Zealand Fire Service truck can be seen.

BeckerFraserPhotos September 2010 photograph 049

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Emergency Police tape placed over a footpath. The footpath is covered in broken glass from a smashed window.

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2011 photograph 041

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Red emergency tape covering the front doors of the damaged Riverside Christian Fellowship office on Charles Street in Kaiapoi.

Rebekah Rogers WEMO Photograph 039

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A photograph of a volunteer from the Wellington Emergency Management Office removing food from a Student Volunteer Army box.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 090

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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office lining up outside a Maggi van which is distributing out soup. The van is parked outside Cowles Stadium on Pages Road, which was set up by Civil Defence as temporary accommodation for those displaced by the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

RECOVERING FROM A WORST-CASE SCENARIO: SHOULD NEW ZEALAND IMPLEMENT A DISA…

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In response to the February 2011 earthquake, Parliament enacted the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act. This emergency legislation provided the executive with extreme powers that extended well beyond the initial emergency response and into the recovery phase. Although New Zealand has the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002, it was unable to cope with the scale and intensity of the Canterbury earthquake sequence. Considering the well-known geological risk facing the Wellington region, this paper will consider whether a standalone “Disaster Recovery Act” should be established to separate an emergency and its response from the recovery phase. Currently, Government policy is to respond reactively to a disaster rather than proactively. In a major event, this typically involves the executive being given the ability to make rules, regulations and policy without the delay or oversight of normal legislative process. In the first part of this paper, I will canvas what a “Disaster Recovery Act” could prescribe and why there is a need to separate recovery from emergency. Secondly, I will consider the shortfalls in the current civil defence recovery framework which necessitates this kind of heavy governmental response after a disaster. In the final section, I will examine how

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 092

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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office at Cowles Stadium on Pages Road. The stadium was set up by Civil Defence as temporary accommodation for those displaced by the 4 September 2010 earthquake. In the background, members of Red Cross are working at the registration table.

Ray Whelan WEMO Photograph 32

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A photograph of volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office working at the reception in Cowles Stadium on Pages Road. The stadium was set up by Civil Defence as temporary accommodation for citizens displaced by the 4 September 2010 earthquake. One of the volunteers is holding a cat in a carrier.

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2011 photograph 135

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A yellow sticker on the fence of a property in Armagh Street restricting entry for emergency purposes, damage assessments, and essential business.

Photograph by Paul Corliss 0125

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A photograph of a sign reading, "Emergency, campus closed, no entry". The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Canterbury University post earthquake".

Rebekah Rogers WEMO Photograph 105

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A photograph of a portable shower unit set up in Hagley Park for the emergency management personnel who travelled to Christchurch after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. A clothes line has been set up by tying ropes to the shower unit and a digger. To the right, a number of portaloos can also be seen.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 120

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A photograph of volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office and a member of the New Zealand Army in front of Cowles Stadium on Pages Road. The stadium was set up as a Civil Defence Report Centre after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 087

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A photograph of volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office working at the reception area of Cowles Stadium on Pages Road. The stadium was set up as temporary accommodation for those displaced by the 4 September 2010 earthquake. To the right Tim Shadbolt, Mayor of Invercargill, is talking on a telephone.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 075

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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office working at the reception area of Cowles Stadium. The stadium was set up by Civil Defence as temporary accommodation for those displaced by the 4 September 2010 earthquake. A member of Red Cross is standing in front of the reception area talking to them.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 082

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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office lining up outside a Maggi van which is distributing soup. The van is parked outside Cowles Stadium on Pages Road, which was set up by Civil Defence as temporary accommodation for those displaced by the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

BeckerFraserPhotos September 2010 photograph 017

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A man talking to two soldiers in front of a cordon on Worcester Street. 'Emergency Police' tape has been placed across the street.

Canterbury Earthquake September 2010 - Photograph 42

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The twisted and broken Medway Street bridge, cordoned off with emergency tape. The photographer comments, "The twisted footbridge at the Medway St corner".

Canterbury Earthquake September 2010 - Photograph 41

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The twisted and broken Medway Street bridge, cordoned off with emergency tape. The photographer comments, "The twisted footbridge at the Medway St corner".

Canterbury Earthquake September 2010 - Photograph 40

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The twisted and broken Medway Street bridge, cordoned off with emergency tape. The photographer comments, "The twisted footbridge at the Medway St corner".

Jim Baltaxe WEMO Photograph 062

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A photograph of piles of liquefaction on the side of a residential street in Christchurch.

Jim Baltaxe WEMO Photograph 058

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A photograph of a earthquake-damaged tree in Hagley Park which has fallen and crushed a shipping container.