Australians are moving to Tasmania to escape climate change, but the island state is not immune

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-24/australians-moving-to-tasmania-to-escape-climate-change/105785996

In short:

Tasmania has a reputation as a refuge from the impacts of climate change, due to its sprawling wilderness areas and cool climate.

Couples like Anna Graham and Jack Taylor have moved to the state to escape the extreme heat and humidity of Queensland.

What’s next?

The National Climate Risk Assessment has forecast key climate hazards for the state, including worsening heatwaves, drought and flooding.

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Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Didn’t they have unprecedented bushfires in places that are usually to damp to catch fire not to many years ago?

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- shads@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yep
  
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- hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yes as did SE.Qld in the “rainforest” that burned.
  
  Dont be there is the key,
  
  As the artcle says everywhere is effected, its just some places are worse then others.
  
  Like the couple interviewd, he couldn’t work outdoors in SE.Qld anymore, it was already unlivable
  
  I left far North Qld 15 years ago for the same reason.
  
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  - Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I grew up in Tassie, currently living in Brisbane. It’s been a thought in the back of my mind that I should head back there come the apocalypse. No-one gives a shit about Tassie in the global scene.
    
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pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I mean i get it, but its kinda like moving to the outer edge of the frying pan to escape the heat.

It may work for a while - but once shit hits the fan and we have food and water resource wars do they think they’ll magically be isolated from it? Especially since Tassie is part of a huge desert island nation with 28 million+ people to feed.

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- hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That makes no sense. Its like not living on a flood plain and others choose to
  
  Sure everyone is suffering but at least you’re not wading through a metre of water from a storm surge you were told years aho was going to happen and you moved inland and up on a hill and otjers said “well, it’s like moving to the edhe of the pan to escape the heat…we’ll just stay here on the flood plain!”
  
  You make it sound like its a instanteous thing.and its everywhere all at once.
  
  I left Far NQ 15 years ago because it was unlivable then.
  
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  - pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Feels like we’re discussing two different things here.
    
    These people are moving to escape climate change of heat in Queensland. But the article discusses a wider trend of people moving to Tas to escape the longer term effects of climate change - which I am pointing out, is impossible.
    
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- shads@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Nah it’ll be fine, our premier is going to push past commonsense and planning advice to get Hobart an eye sore white elephant stadium. That’ll be a valuable asset to house all the displaced people moving down here.
  
  Honestly if we can’t build houses to match the current trickle of people moving here how do they think we will go when it becomes a flood, plus the government takes decades to do any infrastructure work so even if we throw up some housing you better not want a road capable of handling the traffic flowing to it.
  
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