Cleaning up the mess from last week’s floodwaters, Kirsten Gittins is bracing for higher insurance premiums and thinking of ways to make her property more flood resilient.
That includes inventive steps such as installing water-resistant boarding for the lowest 600 millimetres of the family’s Brisbane home. Ms Gittins’ house is among tens of thousands of properties damaged when the torrential rain devastating eastern Australia flooded a nearby creek and water infiltrated her home’s bottom level.
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Liam Walsh writes on investigations and companies with The Australian Financial Review. He has won multiple media awards, worked in Japan and is now based in Brisbane. Email Liam at liam.walsh@afr.com.au
