Former Queenslanders Desmond and Linda Cornford moved to Tasmania to escape the heat five years ago and have no regrets.
In the year to March, 14,521 people moved from around Australia to settle in Tasmania, surpassing an average of 12,874 per year since 2003.
University of Tasmania demographer Lisa Denny from the Institute for the Study of Social Change said in the past, employment opportunities, connecting with family and lifestyle reasons were the main drivers behind people's decisions to relocate. "We were actually surprised that climate and the environment was the number one reason for people coming and for people leaving where they came from," Dr Denny said.
"The risks of more natural hazards and natural events like floods and cyclones and bushfires, the costs associated with insurance are making people reconsider about where they live."Professor of Sustainability at the University of Tasmania Barry Brook said heatwaves on mainland Australia would be hotter and more extreme in the future."Although we will have hot days, we're not subject to the same extended hot periods.
"Places like the north-west coast are particularly mild, they have got Bass Strait around them and I've heard of a lot of people seeking to move there to escape those extreme conditions."
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