Queensland to spend $30M on disaster recovery centre

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ueensland has witnessed the costly reality of climate change and has decided to create a disaster recovery agency.

Queensland Deputy Premier,
Jackie Trad.

According to a story in The Guardian, “The Queensland government is to establish Australia’s first permanent disaster recovery agency to deal with a future of more extreme cyclones and floods brought on by climate change.”

“An ongoing series of natural disasters have cost the state billions since the 2011 floods, which killed 38 people and, according to the World Bank, cost an estimated US$15.9bn ($20bn),” the story says.

Deputy Premier Jackie Trad said the growing number and intensity of disasters like cyclones and floods had been “made clear by key scientists in the field of climate science” and was “the lived experience of regional Queensland”.

The story can be read here - “Queensland to create permanent disaster recovery agency”.