...Just another disturbing story from the town of the “white shoe brigade” Brisbane style!

How incredibly foolish all this is. It seems very clear that if you build your home on a flood plain, sooner or later you will be flooded. Why should the rest of us be somehow be required to pay (by way of taxes, levies, insurance premiums etc) for your foolishness?

And what about the State Government and relevant councils who knowingly allow these situations to develop. And developers who make unconscionable money by purchasing flood prone property at low prices, and then developing it, and conveniently not mentioning the flood risk.

Clearly the State Government and the Councils have a profound obligation to produce flood maps. Vendors should be required by law to disclose exposure to flood risk. Buyers should be required to sign binding contracts that say that they acknowledge that they are exposed to flood risk, and that they are accepting the full consequences of any flood.

That will sort the issue out pretty quick.

Incidentally while Mirvac had – with only one previous loss – successfully sued some other recalcitrant Tennyson Reach buyers, it accepted Mrs. Dunworth’s ultimate win neither philosophically nor graciously. Rather, this company has now sought leave from the High Court to hear its appeal from the Court of Appeal decision.

Meanwhile only last week Queensland Premier Bligh belatedly announced that her government proposed to discuss with the Queensland Law Society and the Real Estate Institute of Queensland “the potential to incorporate flood mapping data” into standard residential sale contracts “pending the recommendation of the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry”.
- Tim O’Dwyer

Dog...

It is why Queensland has earned the pseudonym "Mexico". The place is a standing joke and always was!!

PS: At least I got something back out of the place, In the days of yore, I attended many protest marches under the BLF banner through the Brisbane city: At least we got to knock a few coppers around!

dos vedanya...Dan

Dog:

PPS:

...The white shoe brigade have taken over Brisbane tollways too. When I went up there to assist with building reconstruction last Feb, I got rorted by the now Nationally famous Queensland Toll Way system. Christ, it cost me hundreds of dollars to dig my way out of a failed e tag read of $1.40. All that through one of my rare moments when I actually helped somebody other than myself! Now all my mates gather at my place before they go to Brisbane asking advice on the Queensland toll: The only advice I can give, is to suggest a prayer before they leave. Its a cruel world in Queensland!!