With average insurance premiums up 28% in the past year, there’s growing pressure on the insurance industry to rethink its opposition to a government-owned and run disaster reinsurance pool.
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The insurance industry should be involved in planning for future disasters and resilience, before some parts of New Zealand become uninsurable – leaving mortgage holders and banks exposed.
Natural disasters are driving up insurance costs. The Australian government’s plan to drive them down won’t help much.
Even if you’re well covered, your area may struggle long after a disaster if most locals don’t have enough home and/or contents insurance. Search our map by postcode or suburb name to check your area.
Private companies rate all kinds of investments, from stocks to used cars. Now, they’re starting to analyze climate risks to local real estate – but how reliable are their findings?
The Morrison government’s reinsurance pool is the exact policy the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission recommended against.
Instead of telling people to buy more of the right type of insurance, we should be asking how insurance can work better for people.
One lesson from Australia’s past bushfire disasters is that too many homes are underinsured. But it’s a lesson we’ve failed to learn.
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Associate Professor of Human Geography, University of Tasmania
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Academic (McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow), The University of Melbourne
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Senior Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Lecturer and Research Fellow, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences. Coordinator, Education for Sustainability Tasmania, University of Tasmania
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Professor in Strategic Management, The University of Queensland
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Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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PhD Candidate in Geography and Demography, Penn State
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Senior Lecturer in Finance and Insurance, Massey University
