We need milestones ...that we can each contribute ... and that we will be heard so that we can truly own our own recovery and own our own future ... 'business as usual' is anathema to genuine recovery." Good temporary accommodation would have been a big big help, both financially and psychologically. Deniers, by denying, thus deny the assistance as well as the problem. Note that the climate change probably worsened the Queensland floods, just as it certainly worsened the Black Friday bushfires, and the deaths from that and from the associated heatwave. Kimberley Rose : 22 Jul 2011 11:27:31am Brendan, all that sounds just like the rhetoric that used to come from that newspaper that was on the streets of sydney in the fifties and sixties. It was the communist paper "The Tribune". The wicked white colonialists etc.etc,. Strange that you resurect all that. Geo : a Real Green : 22 Jul 2011 11:26:23am China & India are third-world countries. India already has a coal tax. China will introduce a pilot Emissions Trading Scheme in a handful of major cities by 2013 and expand it nationally in 2015. http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climat\\... If we listened to you & the Liberal party Australia would be behind third-world countries. If we listened to you & the Liberal party Australians would be living in grass huts and crapping in the bushes. There would be no schools or hospitals for our kids, and we would be running after the privileged rich begging for crusts of bread.