Talk given by Sally Hone at the Oral History Australia Biennial Conference - She Said He Said: Reading Writing and Recording History - September 2013,

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Talk given by Sally Hone at the Oral History Australia Biennial Conference - She Said He Said: Reading Writing and Recording History - September 2013, Adelaide, South Australia

WAGGA WAGGA MARCH 2012 FLOODS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

Scope of interviews At least 20 people, a wide representation of the community including: residents in North Wagga the worst hit area with both first timers and long term residents rural residents of Oura and Eunonyhareenyha; Wagga Wagga City Council engineers and infrastructure workers including Heinz Kausche Director Infrastructure Services Other Council staff who manned the Flood Response/Recovery centre and personally handled paperwork for over 9,000 evacuees; local residents and business owners in the CBD who were forced to evacuate late at night; SES, Army and Rural Fire Services who worked side by side

Interview themes Short biography of each person Account of events – the flooding, timing, evacuation Thoughts and feelings throughout that time The North Wagga Wagga residents – ‘we shall not be moved’ movement Damages and loss Return and clean up Recovery and help from agencies Memory of previous floods and differences Communications including online and use of social media Emergency services – their responses and evaluation Environmental aspects Multicultural responses (include recent African communities)

Allan Woolstencraft, North Wagga resident

Frank Newah Jarfoi, Secretary General Wagga African Association (WAFRICA)

Virginia Anderson – recent North Wagga Wagga homeowner

Evelyn Patterson

James McTavish SES Regional Controller for the Murrumbidgee Region

Water/ March 5,2012 Would you bet your life and your families' lives on the length of a handspan compared to the height of a 3 storey building? If you stay behind in Wagga Wagga in the evacuation area and do not evacuate - that is what you are doing. Please take the order seriously and leave as soon as possible. Issued Monday at 9pm The Murrumbidgee River is expected to reach 10.8m at Wagga Wagga 7.00am Tuesday March 6, which is likely to threaten the Wagga Wagga CBD, Wagga Wagga central Flowerdale and surrounding areas. The likely affected areas are those that are located: