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Is anywhere safe from Australia's worsening natural disasters?

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Is anywhere safe from Australia's worsening natural disasters?(Supplied: FRNSW)

Devastating fires one year, disastrous floods the next: it feels like Australia is being continually battered by natural disasters. 

So what comes next, and is there anything we can do to stop it? 

Today, Robert Glasser, a former UN adviser on disaster risk reduction, on how climate change is driving the crisis, and why nowhere in Australia will truly be safe.   

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Dr Robert Glasser, Head, Climate and Security Policy Centre, Australian Strategic Policy Institute

Virginia Guyler, Lismore resident

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Australia, Floods, Cyclones, Fires, Climate Change, Storms, Climate Change, Disaster Preparedness, 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Weather, Federal - State Issues, State and Territory Government
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