Homebuyers moving into Brisbane’s floodplain suburbs do not have the local knowledge to make decisions on how to prepare for future problems, victims of past disasters say.
People moving into Brisbane’s floodplain suburbs are left high and dry by lacking local knowledge to make decisions on how to prepare for the worst, victims of past disasters say.
But community advocates of flood resilience say both highlight infrastructure recovery – bridges, ferries, road repairs – and not communities.Retired Brisbane environmental planner Mary Maher, former lord mayor Tim Quinn and former councillor Helen Abrahams are behind“This idea of having a conversation about how do we get organised for the future, that’s what Resilience Kurilpa is all about,” Maher says.
They examined their insurance risk, decided the flood premiums were initially affordable and moved in. Columbian students Mel Socarros and Sebastian Murcia arrived in Brisbane to study only to find lifts out, kitchen not working and their apartment without power for a week.Unit owners and renters – which included hundreds of international students in West End – had no information about floods and their apartments.“They couldn’t charge their phones because the power got cut off. They couldn’t get up and down in the lifts in the towers.
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