A solution would be to critically reassess where people are allowed to build and abandon various existing towns
rache,
Yes ! We need people who know rather than experts to plan & make decisions.

individual,
A good example of people who know was Governor Macquarrie and his surveyors who surveyed the Nepean area in NSW.
Apparently the surveyors asked the local aborigines about the flood levels and laid out the farms using this information and their own observations.
The flood prone and rich ground was for agriculture, the next section for stock and the highest section for the house and sheds etc.
Later subdivisions messed it all up.

Good to see the Queenland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk telling ScumO' Morrison where to stick his "STATE OF EMERGENCY" for Queensland. Queenslanders don't want Morrison coming up here almost a fortnight after the event "GRANDSTANDING", looking for photo ops, and being a general nucense! As my Old Man would say; "That blokes all piss and wind, tell him to piss off!" I never agreed much with Howard, and even less with Abbott, but I can't say they weren't sincere, not like this shallow clown in charge at the moment.

ps: Dom The Dill in NSW might need to suck up to Morrison to keep his job, but our gal in Queensland is free from such restraints, and can speak her mind to the dick!

Well Well, that is interesting Paul. You believe the lady actually has a mind!

I guess it never occurred to you or her, that there are certain actions & expenditures that can only be undertaken when a state of emergency has been declared.

I didn't vote Labor at the last state election Hassy. You might have been impressed with Morrison inspecting the end of a council workers broom, or his silly look at pushing a floor mop (once) on a dry floor.

Want to put people who have suffered enough off side, then carry on like a clown, sticking your beak in, looking for photo ops, Morrison did it in the bushfires, now he's doing it in the floods. As for the State of Emergency call, in NSW the Fed's are paying $3,000 to flood victims in 3 politically sensitive shires, whilst ignoring others just as badly impacted.

Top marks to both the QLD government, and the LNP Brisbane City Council. On the Monday after, that's one day, the BCC had diverted every council worker and every piece of equipment that could be directed to help out. Where was Duttons Dads Army when needed, it took them over a week to get boots on the ground, it took BCC less than 24 hours. If Australia gets invaded don't send in the army, send in the council workers!

If anyone was grand-standing on that particular issue, it was the Qld Premier not the PM.
As one of the Army chaps said, this was considered a national emergency from the beginning.
Qld & NSW are State Emergencies, it's not the whole Nation as yet.
It is National so far as help provided goes.