Recovering from the 2003 Canberra bushfire: a work in progress

It is more than five years since Canberra experienced the devastating ‘firestorm’ on January 18 2003 in which 4 people died. This report details a research project that looked at aspects of the recovery process following the January 2003 bushfire, specifically investigating the process of individual and community recovery from a natural disaster, looking particularly at the medium to longterm recovery process following the 2003 Canberra bushfire.