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Shane Stone doubled down on the comments on Friday, saying he had started a conversation about not rebuilding in disaster-prone areas
Taxpayers cannot continue to ‘pick up the bill’ for increasingly common natural disasters, a top government official has said.
After a week of dangerous floods in south-east Queensland and NSW, which have killed 15 people, residents in flood-prone areas are once again mopping up the mess and starting to rebuild their lives.
The head of the government's National Recovery and Resilience Agency, Shane Stone, has asserted that people should stop living in flood prone areas.
The determined herd of cows forced to swim through a submerged paddock to dry land during the NSW floods this week are now facing another desperate battle to survive.