During a parliamentary inquiry into the national climate risk assessment on Tuesday, the Greens’ leader, Larissa Waters, opens questioning on the prospect that some 597,000 people could be at direct risk of coastal hazards by 2030. Waters asks exactly where those locations are. Judith Landsberg from the Australian Climate Service, which produced the national climate risk assessment report, couldn’t immediately provide the information. When pushed, Landsberg says the highest-risk communities ‘would not be a surprise to Australians’. ‘Broadly, southern Queensland, up the coast in Queensland, there’s areas at risk in Western Australia, there’s areas at risk in every region, but also South Australia and the south-east of Victoria,’ Lansberg says.
Communities at highest risk from climate change located in Queensland, Victoria, WA and SA
