Residents and businesses are considering leaving Lismore for good. The town is now on the brink.
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The flood will exacerbate the housing crisis for people with disability and their carers. Here’s why – and six steps governments could take now.
There is still an election to be fought, of course, but looking back from today it is not clear what the government’s legacy is – or might become.
While climate change poses new threats to trees, it also creates new opportunities for us to work with trees as allies. We must not work against them.
The findings indicates natural disasters such as the current floods in southeastern Australia can influence election results.
After more than three years as prime minister, Scott Morrison is still struggling to provide much-needed crisis leadership.
About two-thirds of people affected by disasters such as floods return to their usual level of psychological well-being. But some people are at risk of lasting distress.
Simply providing passive information is not enough. Governments must find better ways to deliver important messages about natural hazards.
Domestic violence surges during and after bushfires, pandemics, earthquakes, cyclones and floods. We need to start preparing for the next inevitable disaster.
Parts of southeast Australia are inundated yet again. Clearly, short-term weather forecasts are not enough to protect communities in times like these.
Barnaby Joyce, in his usual blunt fashion, told a TV interviewer on Wednesday morning Scott Morrison would get a bad reception when he visited Lismore.
As disasters become more frequent under climate change, building back damaged electricity poles and wires seems maddeningly futile.
The urge to create, or donate to, crowdfunding campaigns in a crisis is understandable. But it’s worth asking: who can succeed in crowdfunding, and who gets left behind?
Disasters are becoming more frequent and severe as the climate heats up – but Australia is badly under-prepared.
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society editor, Amanda Dunn
Councils are trying to balance competing priorities in urban development, with limited resources and stretched budgets.
Floods allow aquatic animals to venture into places you wouldn’t expect, from crocs in swimming pools to bull sharks in a golf course.
By following moisture from the oceans to the land, researchers worked out exactly how three oceans conspire to deliver deluges of rain to eastern Australia.
The rain isn’t letting up for Australia’s east. Remarkably, the low-pressure band that drenched Brisbane is now spawning not one but two east coast lows for Sydney – more typically seen in winter.
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Professor Paddy Nixon, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science, University of Reading
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