Extreme weather is making parts of Australia uninhabitable
Some towns and suburbs will have to move to higher ground
From her balcony in Lismore, a town in northern New South Wales, Maralyn Schofield surveys the wreckage of her neighbourhood. Located at a confluence of the slow-moving Wilsons River, her house was erected on 13-metre stilts to preserve it from seasonal floods. Yet when Lismore was inundated last February, after days of torrential rainstorms, the floodwaters poured into Ms Schofield’s sitting-room.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Moving house”
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