Re: NBN and QLD

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From: Brad
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:34

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On Jan 18, 10:58 pm, Sylvia Else <syl...@not.here.invalid> wrote:
> On 18/01/2011 5:08 PM, LuR wrote:
>
> > If you want to live in a flood
> > area that's the risk YOU take and hopefully you pay the premium for
> > flood damages too on your insurance. Maybe that should be mandatory for
> > future floods in known affected areas.
>
> That's going a bit far. But people who choose to live in flood prone
> areas and not insure should be required to sign a statutory declaration
> to the effect that they won't winge about it if there's a flood, nor
> ask for, nor even accept, any financial assistance.
>
> But the government (state and local councils) have a lot to answer for.
> Are we so short of land in Australia that we need to resort to building
> in low lying areas?
>
> Sylvia.

Australia as a continent is a low lying area. There are often not a
lot of choices.

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