Abstract
In Australia, community organisations are pivotal to building the resilience of local vulnerable populations. Following a disaster event, community leaders have high levels of expectation placed on them. Despite this expectation, their organisations remain underfunded, there is scant acknowledgement of the actual and potential contribution that their organisations can make, and the social and psychological impact on the community leaders themselves frequently goes untreated. This discordance between expectations and support creates issues of justice in the context of disaster. In this chapter we examine these issues utilising the October 2013 experience of fires in the NSW Blue Mountains to argue that a strongly resourced and acknowledged community sector, whose leaders are appropriately supported, will enhance community resilience and contribute to the building of disaster justice.
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