Brawny, can-do, innovative, multicultural, Australia is not going to be pushed around by measly fires, floods and pandemics.

Morrison-Albanese have already reset for all-time immigration highs, most of which will pour into Sydney-Melbourne as usual.

That means more and more mug punters front-loaded into high-risk development tracts with lousy services and "natural" disasters.

Not a federal-state problem, is it? Developers have already paid them off. Hey, tell somebody who cares. Go talk to your insurer.

Another tip: build dams.
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Another tip: build at least ten metres above waterways &/or widen waterways through cities & create lagoons & canal developments to take up any excess water. It improves real estate values & creates massive employment ! The environment too will benefit massively !
Mulch & compress waste mixed with concrete & use such material for fill & raising flood-prone residential blocks.

But every degree warmer the atmosphere gets it can hold 5% more water because ... physics. This means it can hold more water to dry faster in drought areas, and dump faster in deluges. It means more drought and floods, more agricultural damage, and more famine.

So yes, Australia has had bad droughts and floods before. But depending on where that warm water gathers as the oceans heat up, maybe we ain't seen nothing yet?