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Yandina wetlands flooding

To: Denise Goodfellow <>
Subject: Yandina wetlands flooding
From: Carl Clifford <>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:30:23 +1100
The mean sea level at Port Arthur, Tas., rose 13.5 cm between 1841 and 2000. 
The Global Mean Sea Level rose approx 22.5 cm between 1880 and 2012,

I live near the sea, but I am at approx 18m ASL, so I might be right for a 
while.

Carl Clifford


> On 11 Dec 2014, at 7:32 am, Denise Goodfellow <> 
> wrote:
> 
> Julian
> 
> I seem to remember that some years ago tourism operators in Queensland wanted 
> cyclone warnings downplayed as they didn’t want to scare the tourists!  So 
> I’m not surprised at Minister Sweeney’s response.
> 
> Here in the Top End past governments released land for housing in the primary 
> and secondary storm surge zone - occupiers would be covered by the 
> government-owned insurance company TIO.  However, TIO is now being sold and 
> my guess is that insurance costs will rise substantially if those 
> house-owners can get cover at all.  
> 
> In the last twenty years the sea level in the Top End has risen fourteen cms. 
>   I don’t know how much it has risen in Queensland but assume the figure may 
> be similar. 
> 
> For anyone considering buying a house in the NT or Queensland it’s a case of 
> caveat emptor - “buyer beware”!  
> 
> Denise Lawungkurr  Goodfellow
> PO Box 71
> Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
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> PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.
> 
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> Founding Member: Australian Federation of Graduate Women Northern Territory
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>> On 11 Dec 2014, at 3:33 am, Julian Bielewicz <> wrote:
>> 
>> Greetings Carl et al.
>> 
>> Not only is it theoretical but Sweeney stepped in to demand that the Moreton 
>> Bay Regional Council's plan delete all references to sea level rises.  That 
>> has caused something of a stir among among the local councils.  Can a 
>> politician interfere with a local planning document?
>> 
>> And if you think that's bad, ask why Queensland continues to defy the 
>> introduction of daylight saving.  Something to do with cows and fading 
>> curtains.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Julian
>> 
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