MP vows flooding back
MORPHING from bellicose to lachrymose is a medical condition diagnosed in many Townsvillean flood victims as the dawning of false hopes emerges from a deep coma.
Succinctly, after the 2011 Queensland disastrous floods, the Federal Government floated the notion of making flood cover mandatory prompting many insurers to make flood cover as per the standard definition compulsory in their policies.
The response from government sadly was more of the usual inertia and nothing in legislation eventuated.
Igitur, it is not legally compulsory but surely it is not in good faith at best for insurance policies to be written without flood cover on top of an already compulsory punitive strata title cyclone insurance premiums 323 per cent more expensive than south of Noosa.
How in the hell does this eventuate, pray tell?
For insurance purposes, the definition of flood is: “The covering of normally dry land by water that has escaped or been released from the normal confines of any lake, or any river, creek or any other natural watercourse whether or not altered or modified or any reservoir, canal, or dam.’’
It has been six weeks since this writer waded from his old townhouse in Rosslea, presupposing deliberations from an insurance system that it seems is skewed in the insurers’ favour, as the appellants lay in a constant state of anxiety with a body corporate service provider system of governance inoculated from their broker it would seem with a wall of who knows? A successful insurance claim for storm water run-off damage inundation as opposed to flood damage is an uncertain, obscure highway to hell with the flood victim minus exposure to flood cover relying on the advocacy skills of a body corporate administration service up against the might of insurance behemoths who provide the loss adjusters and the hydrologists for assessing.
Add to this despair, the dastardly silence wafting from our three Townsville state ALP members, Coralee O’rourke, Aaron Harper and Scott Stewart continues unabated prompting one wag’s observation that their collective silence would make the black and white movies era sound awfully loud.
Similarly, nothing of comfort emanating from our Premier, Anastasia Palaszczuk or the darling of the left Deputy Premier Jacklyn Anne Trad except coincidentally their continued opposition to a coal fired power station in our beleaguered north and an obsessed fascination with the black throated finch who I am informed has taken silk.
I wonder if our black throated finch friend is covered for flood? Postmodernist governments never cease to amaze me with their arcane musings.
PETER J. SMITH, Rosslea.