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The best and the worst of us. Like the land itself: dust and rain, drought and flood, bushfire and cyclone — two sides of the same coin.Floods across the three states are bringing back the exhaustingly familiar discussions about mitigation, prevention, personal responsibility and climate change, even while communities from the far reaches of the state — and even into the inner cities — are still trying to figure out if they're spending the night in a community hall or a mud-filled house.
After the devastating Brisbane floods of 2011, the question that boom-time Queensland had not dared to utter — Should we really be building homes on the banks of flood-prone rivers? — was asked in earnest, and only last week the prime minister declared that the obvious response to some of the nation's disasters was to stop building homes on flood plains.
However, the federal emergency management minister, Murray Watt, took the discussion a perhaps ill-timed step further just on Thursday, when he said the country needed to have a conversation about property buybacks: voluntary ones, preferably, but possibly even compulsory ones where they are needed.Watch
Building emergency housing for flood victims in flood prone areas like Ballina & Mullumbimby is a case in point
Coming through the Grampians to Warrnambool it dawned on me how Train Track Elevation and back road edges and Highways elevate soil that stops water shed across the land , causing flooding on one half
If only we had a carbon tax, then these floods would not be happening.
I have always said that we need to review where we build houses having grown up on a flood prone river
Qldaah THE ONE ABOUT CLIMATE?
Qldaah THE ONE ABOUT CLIMATE?
If people are going to live in flood prone areas there should be some investigation into damage minimization Why there isnt a government backed container relocation service Call and a container is delivered packed and moved to high ground.
The ABC can’t discuss anything about weather without talking about climate change. Can you show us anywhere that’s flooded today that hasn’t flooded in the past?
Labor Climate Change Expert 2007-13 Tim Flannery Albo who is Labors Climate Change Expert 2022?
Nature's preparation for the decade long drought we are about to have.
Solidarity