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The uninsurable Australians
FromABC News Daily
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Length:
13 minutes
Released:
Dec 2, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Much of Australia has been ravaged by floods this year, with some towns almost virtually wiped out.
To make matters worse, many residents were unable to afford the soaring insurance costs, and have been left with nothing.
As rising costs associated with climate change are making more and more homes uninsurable nation-wide, we ask how we can protect Australians when insurance companies no longer will?
Featured:
Professor Paula Jarzabkowski, University of Queensland School of Business.
To make matters worse, many residents were unable to afford the soaring insurance costs, and have been left with nothing.
As rising costs associated with climate change are making more and more homes uninsurable nation-wide, we ask how we can protect Australians when insurance companies no longer will?
Featured:
Professor Paula Jarzabkowski, University of Queensland School of Business.
Released:
Dec 2, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The new Centrelink 'points' system making job seekers anxious: It's an unsettling time for Australians on unemployment benefits as they try to navigate a whole new set of rules. A new Centrelink system means they'll need to earn points for a range of activities or risk missing out on their income support. Today the ABC's social affairs correspondent, Norman Hermant on the anxious days ahead for hundreds of thousands of Australians as they try to make sense of the changes. Featured: Norman Hermant, social affairs correspondent by ABC News Daily