December 2023
Stormy summer’s toll mounts, in lives and dollars
At least nine people have died in Queensland and Victoria since a Christmas deluge started along the east coast, and rain is expected for days yet.
- Maxim Shanahan
Prawns spared as mango, barramundi ruined in cyclone
Mangoes, bananas, avocado and barramundi are among the produce ruined in far north Queensland, with crops lost just before the Christmas boom.
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- Liv Casben
Cyclone insurance back-up scheme likely off-limits for Qld floods
Insurance companies are unlikely to be able to access a Commonwealth reinsurance project to offset costs of paying out victims of the North Queensland flooding, which could lead to a rise in premiums.
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- Liam Walsh
April 2023
Voice can’t veto Australia Day: Ken Hayne
Former High Court justice Kenneth Hayne has dismissed claims the Voice to parliament would have veto over Australia and Anzac Day; Port Hedland ‘spared the worst’. How the day unfolded.
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- Timothy Moore, Georgie Moore and Joanna Mather
No ships at Port Hedland as category five Ilsa approaches
The storm is expected to pack winds of up to 285 kilometres per hour as Port Hedland braces for impact.
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- Aaron Bunch
February 2023
Cyclone won’t stand in the way of 5.5pc RBNZ peak
The RBNZ raised the cash rate by half a percentage point to 4.75 per cent, but confessed it evaluated a jumbo 0.75 percentage point move.
- Alex Gluyas
Cyclone wreaks havoc across New Zealand
Thousands of people have been evacuated across the country and at least 225,000 were without power.
- Lucy Craymer and Lincoln Feast
November 2022
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- Floods
Floods cause horrid start for Suncorp claims, again
The insurer could already have used up as much as 46 per cent of its budgeted allowance for natural disasters – and that’s before the dreaded cyclone season starts.
- Liam Walsh
June 2022
Global warming contributes to drop in tropical cyclones, study finds
The annual number of tropical cyclones forming globally has decreased by approximately 13 per cent, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change.
- Gus McCubbing
January 2022
Queensland on cyclone watch as flood waters recede
A category one cyclone is crossing the Cape York Peninsula, while further south residents in the Wide Bay region count the costs of the weekend’s damaging floods.
- Tess Bennett
December 2021
- Analysis
- USA
After the tornado, half of a Kentucky town ‘is just gone’
As the residents of Mayfield pick up the pieces, amid all the anguish and worry there is also gratitude among those who survived.
- Rick Rojas and Jamie McGee
September 2021
Oil spill spreads after deadly storm
Activists fear an environmentalist disaster after a 23-kilometre oil slick emerged off the coast of Louisiana following Hurricane Ida.
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- Kanishka Singh, Andrea Shalal and Valerie Volcovici
August 2021
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Cyclone threat forces insurance upheaval
At the same time as the federal government drags the chain on carbon reduction targets it is recognising the financial impact of global warming.
- Tony Boyd
April 2021
WA residents told to evacuate as Cyclone Seroja intensifies
Tropical cyclone Seroja strenthened off Western Australia on Sunday, with emergency services opening shelters in preparation for high winds and coastal flooding later in the evening.
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- Melanie Burton
December 2020
Vulnerable households need insurance subsidies: ACCC
The government should consider direct subsidies to help northern Australian households pay for prohibitively expensive insurance, rather than introduce sweeping reforms.
- James Fernyhough
August 2020
Mass evacuations, worst feared as monster storm nears southern US
Hurricane Laura has intensified in the Gulf of Mexico into a category-four storm that forecasters described as one of the worst to pound the region in decades.
- Rick Rojas, Chelsea Brasted and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio