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Kirsten Ellis will be running the a marathon on the Gold Coast this Sunday, just months after her home was damaged in the Lismore floods.
A town in northern Victoria along a major river could be so badly flood affected that 90 per cent of homes could be uninsurable by 2030. Brisbane and Byron Bay are in danger too.
Rio Tinto will invest in large-scale wind and solar farms in central and southern Queensland to power its aluminium operations in the Gladstone region.
Queensland renters are being forced to pay more than $300 a week so they can live in shabby 'micro apartments', single rooms in shared houses or cramped studios.
A popular caravan park usually filled with tourists has turned into a temporary refuge for renters priced out of the property market or the homeless amid Australia's worrying rental crisis.