Labor and the Greens have called for coastal retreat strategies, post-construction risk reviews of infrastructure, and liability exemptions for councils, in a new Senate climate change report.
The Victorian government plans to repeal existing Crown Land legislation and replace it with a new protected areas law that takes better account of climate change and biodiversity loss.
Australia's capacity to overcome severe and catastrophic events is under strain, and climate change could accelerate instability, according to security agencies.
Climate change will cause regional disruption, but concerns about large-scale influxes of 'climate refugees' are ill-founded, a Senate inquiry has been told.