Australia: Complacency about disasters an issue says Attorney General

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"We are nowhere near as sophisticated as a community as for instance New Zealand is, or for that matter Japan is, in respect to tsunamis," said the federal attorney-general Robert McClelland. "I think in short there is progress. It's moving but it could move more quickly.".

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