As long as the world continues to burn/use fossil fuels, these disaster events cannot just continue but grow worse and worse until life as we know it is extinguished!

Burying our collective heads somewhere warm and comfortable is not the answer!

What we need is a pool of public monies to pay for the damage caused by these extreme events, a levy we all contribute to in some way.

Say, by increasing the GST to 15%? And cheaper than insurance charges!

Apart from that, the world needs to transition to carbon free nuclear energy ASAP. And revegetate our arid landscapes as if the survival of the world and the human species depended on it, because it does!

Those of us welded to coal, gas and oil. Need to be removed from public office. And that is currently the Australian labor party.

We should make and export green hydrogen instead! And in time, raw electrical energy via undersea cables.

Then and only then, will we become an energy exporting superpower to rival the middle east!

Why, some conservative thinkers are more environmentally responsible than our labor party!

Transitioning to nuclear energy (MSR thorium) will more than hugely offset the proposed lift in the GST! And kill/reverse inflation, dead in its tracks!

Multiples of small thorium reactors can be plugged in to current power stations, to use current transmission lines, transformers etc, to reticulate power to consumers.

Apart from that, local energy co-ops could join the fray and create micro grid to compete with the corporate giants as energy reticulating suppliers.

Free and fair competition is the basis of best business practice and the cornerstone of progressive democracies the world over!
Alan B.

Heard of a perfect money-wasting rumour today. The Victorian Disaster Management has apparently arranged for 20 caravans & a generator(s) to be leased from a crowd in SA & sent to an Aboriginal community in FNQ & even (if it's true that is) sent a crane from SA to unload the vans.
I hope it's only a rumour but if anyone has heard about it please tell.