In February 2009, the worst bushfires in Australian history ripped through Victoria in a series of firestorms so powerful that a million acres went up in flames, seven thousand Australians lost their homes and 173 … The parameters of expected and acceptable behaviours were defined for individuals by their gender first. The men’s own comments – that ‘The right questions need to be asked’ or that ‘No-one had asked them’ – may explain the misconception. Their loss of control during the fire lived on in continuing loss of control in its aftermath. Tragically, they died in their home. During the Black Saturday aftermath, a Royal Commission was held to work out why the losses were so great and what should be done to stop an event of that scale ever happening again. However, participants often benefit from participation in research with the potential to speak freely without advice or judgement. However, how bushfire risk is assessed and communicated, and how trade-offs are negotiated, still has a long way to go if bushfire risk is to be a truly “shared responsibility” as the royal commission recommended. McMahon promised the GCW fans who were tuned in that they would enjoy his new program just as much. Men used this word to describe the atmospheric conditions that preceded the fire storm, and the hours and days that followed as its tragic impacts became apparent. I’ve talked about how I got depressed, and how I took medication and all that, just to try and show, that hey, this guy that they seem to respect is okay with it, so why shouldn’t you? None had ever experienced a fire like that before. Negative perceptions of those who had ‘not coped’ affected their employability and their work relationships. Seeing this turmoil, McMahon approached the Brisco brothers and Jim Barnett, the fourth owner of the company, and discussed a potential sale. Those in the Flowerdale Hotel who worked to save the community building – and their neighbour, Bob – deserve that mantle. (1.40 MB), 'We can all recover': Paying tribute to the survivors of Black Saturday, 'We let people down': CFA chief's frank reflections on Black Saturday, The 'speck on the map' almost forgotten after Black Saturday. 'Your friends died, your home disappeared': Black Saturday, 10 years on, building and planning regulations for fire-prone areas. Points of difference arose over the direction of community rebuilding, and local and state government decisions that directly impacted on people’s daily lives as they tried to re-establish. SBS acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia. The cost of male privilege is most apparent in these circumstances. Humidity was low that The two primary researchers jointly conducted the in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Local people, with the complex and unrelenting pressures of rebuilding a life in communities devastated by trauma and tragedy, were practically and emotionally ill-equipped for such a workload away from their own properties and families. Both were asked to undertake work that revived their traumatic bushfire experiences. Interpersonal and domestic violence often increase, along with community anger and aggression. In 1976, GCW became the first National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) territory to earn a national cable television contract as the soon-to-be-renamed Superstation WTBS began to be carried by various cable and satellite providers nationwide. Such expectations of men test and sometimes expose men for perceived failure to live up to ideal male standards (Austin 2008). The partnership with Monash Injury Research Institute was then funded by the National Disaster Resilience Grants Scheme to begin to answer this question. 2014, True 2013). During the 1990s, Philadelphia-based Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) rose to become the third-largest wrestling company in North America, behind the WWF and WCW. However, the risks to men’s health that emerged from hyper-masculine and risk-taking behaviours held the potential for physical injury and death. Individual interviews were conducted to collect data. Nobody had sound advice to give about local and surrounding conditions and predictions. While this has meant many improvements in how we communicate and coordinate in the face of bushfires, I believe it has also resulted in an overemphasis on accountability and technology at the expense of effective fire control. The Black Saturday bushfires swept through Kinglake. The many reports, studies and inquiries in the ten years since Black Saturday have created a new regime for assessing and dealing with fires. By Kevin Tolhurst, University of Melbourne. This real estate speculation caused an increase in house prices and meant some people were unable to move back. What were/are the implications of these effects for the safety and wellbeing of fire-affected men, and for those around them, including their intimate partners and families and work colleagues? USA gave McMahon another time slot when WWF Prime Time Wrestling, a similar program to the WWF's TBS program that aired on Monday nights and was a forerunner to the current Monday Night Raw, debuted early in 1985. Expectations based on gender have broad implications for families and communities and for the ways in which emergency management personnel and procedures operate during crisis response. Consequently, he approached Turner with an offer to buy the Saturday night GCW time slot, only for Turner to reject him out of hand. In a survey of Australian attitudes to bushfire, the myth of the (male) firefighter volunteer remains strong, and is reinforced by women’s exclusion (Eriksen & Gill 2010, Eriksen, Gill & Head 2010). The fires occurred during extreme bushfire weather conditions and resulted in Australia's highest-ever loss of human life from a bushfire, with 173 fatalities. 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[6] McMahon was not happy with either of Turner's decisions, thinking his control of GCW would make the WWF the exclusive wrestling company on TBS. The hope was that the rules were right. Despite high prices, work standards were questionable. From that date, GCW's program aired for two hours (from 6-8 PM and later from 6:05 to 8:05 following the introduction of TBS' "Turner Time" in 1981) every Saturday night. Anonymity was enhanced by the use of pseudonyms in reports and by altering minor details that might have otherwise exposed context and identity. Masculinity studies generally find no single dominant performance of manhood, instead identifying culturally and historically specific forms of idealised masculinity against which men are measured. The Gender and Disaster POD is supported by Women’s Health Goulburn North East, Women’s Health in the North and Monash University Disaster Resilience Initiative. The knowledge gained has resulted in better weather forecasting, better communication about fires and weather to the public, better coordination and cooperation between emergency response agencies and public land managers, and better building and planning regulations for fire-prone areas. Aftermath Confidentiality concerns arise in the rural, post-disaster context and the limits of anonymity were identified in the ethics document. In 1982, Georgia Championship Wrestling renamed its weekly program World Championship Wrestling, a name the entire promotion would grow to be identified by. The current fires are unique in that this is the first time … They got killed in the fires and they just didn’t know it ... About four months ago, in about four weeks there were five people committing suicide. In a free-market economy, builders exploited a situation where needs were high, supply was low, and funds were available from grants and insurance. Coding validity was enhanced by the second researcher’s careful reading following coding by the first researcher, and by participant checks of their own transcript as well as the draft report. Black Saturday was a day like no other; it will be forever remembered in the history of bushfire disasters in Australia. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Australian Disaster Resilience Conference, Centre of Excellence for Prescribed Burning. The last World Championship Wrestling program under GCW control aired on July 7, 1984. At conferences and related speaking events throughout Victoria, researchers were constantly asked, ‘But what about the men?’. Turner's decision to give time slots to Bill Watts and Ole Anderson indirectly led to other wrestling organizations gaining national cable television contracts. In contrast to the acceptance of men’s aggression, traditionally ‘feminine’ behaviours like expressing emotion and seeking help were perceived as unacceptable. The firestorm tested the logic of decades of fire knowledge and experience. Men, no matter how closely they fitted the image of the ideal, hegemonic male, were helpless in the path of the firestorm on Black Saturday. For some, the sights they saw kept them awake at night years later. We should not expect there will be no loss of lives and property in future massive blazes, but we should expect it will be significantly less than Black Saturday. There is a perception, or perhaps an understanding, that accessing such individual counselling may affect future prospects within emergency service organisations. The narratives used in this research illustrate the ways they were punished for apparently being out of control, crying in public, or struggling with grief and loss in the workplace. In July 2018, the Black Saturday episode was made available as a hidden gem on the WWE Network. What has been suggested is that ‘from Peru to Alaska, men cope through alcohol abuse and aggression’ (Enarson & Phillips 2008, p. 51). It finds that disaster impacts can be severe and long-lasting, yet men may be penalised for seeking psychological help. So I don’t think that they really realised the vulnerability of children and partners at home. Emergency management is highly male-dominated, and is a sector in which hyper-masculinity is celebrated and rewarded, as it is in the broader Australian society (Parkinson, Duncan & Hedger 2015, Hogg 2013). Men, as well as women, pay a price for male privilege (Dowd 2010) and constant efforts to live up to Western ideals of manhood can lead to stress, illness and early death (Greig, Kimmel & Lang 2000, Jalmert 2003, Medrado & Lyra 2003). Apparent ‘obsession’ with funding domestic housing over business was of concern to several men interviewed. Ten years after Black Saturday, the traumatised survivors reveal how they found the strength to recover from the worst bushfire disaster in Australian history. [7], Tributes: Remembering Some of the World's Greatest Wrestlers, "End of an era on TBS Solie, Georgia and 'Black Saturday, "Full List Of WWE Network Additions (07/12/2018): Historic WWE Network Hidden Gem, Smackdown, and More! However, unlike World Championship Wrestling, which had been a weekly show from the TBS studios in Atlanta, the WWF's TBS show at first consisted solely of highlights from the WWF's USA Network and syndicated programming, as well as house show clips from Madison Square Garden, Boston Garden, and most of the other major arenas it did business in. Despite his setback with regard to the TBS time slot, McMahon's USA Network contract and syndicated programming were not affected in any way. For example, ‘Australia’s bare-chested national hero’ was the headline above a newspaper picture of a man defying safety guidelines by standing on a hotel roof wearing only thongs and shorts hosing down the property (The Telegraph 12 February 2009).
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