Natural+Disasters

Finding statistics on the incidence of students being affected by natural disasters is difficult, although Australia has suffered more than 50 significant natural disasters since the 1900s (ABS 2005). Natural disasters can be widespread (e.g. the Queensland floods in 2011) or localised (e.g. a local bush-fire or landslide), hence such statistics would be wildly skewed with some schools having 100% of students affected and other schools away from natural disaster areas having no students affected unless they have relatives in a disaster area or have relocated from one.

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