Don't say you wern't warned!

NSW fires see more than 850,000 hectares destroyed so far in season 'as bad as it gets'

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-11/nsw-bushfires-850000-hectares-destroyed-worst-to-come/1169103...

 

many years ago after a monumentally bad fire a inquiry was formed to see what our leaders should do in order to be better prepared if the same situation should happen again.

 

like the puchasing of the canadian super tanker fire fighting planes.

of couse they were expensive but if each state was to purchase 1 then come a day like we are predicting now these planes would all be available to be deployed as a mega fire fighting group.

 

but no, we were told we dont need them, we can do better with out them.

and anyway, these big fires dont happen very often.

 

well well well, looks to me like the eastern states are in for fires, big fires, nearly every year!

 

i just heard on radio where if your considered in a fire prone area (thats just about everyone these days) you can forget insurance cover.

 

oh, and done mention 'climate change' to the govt, its still a load of you know what to scomo and co.

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Bushfire grounds in Adelaide Hills and Kangaroo Island mapped in 3D by low-flying planes

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-05/researchers-use-small-planes-to-3d-map-bushfire-zones-in-sa/1...

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Insurance premiums rising after long summer of bushfires, storms and floods

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-13/insurance-premiums-pressured-by-bushfires-storms-and-floods/1...

 

who didnt see this comming?

of course i can imagine scomos response

shop around for a better deal

 

thats his cure for every problem

 

unhappy with your bank charges, shop around

unhappy with your power bill, shop around

unhappy with your water bill, shop around

ect ect

 

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Hopefully the electorate will shop around for a new PM
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@davidc4430 wrote:

Insurance premiums rising after long summer of bushfires, storms and floods

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-13/insurance-premiums-pressured-by-bushfires-storms-and-floods/1...

 

who didnt see this comming?

of course i can imagine scomos response

shop around for a better deal

 

thats his cure for every problem

 

unhappy with your bank charges, shop around

unhappy with your power bill, shop around

unhappy with your water bill, shop around

ect ect

 


If people choose to live in dangerous areas, with forests growing up to their front doors or in known cyclone paths, why wouldnt they expect to pay an insurance premium that reflects the risks of the location they have chosen to live in ? I would have thought that was just common sense.

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@davidc4430 wrote:

Insurance premiums rising after long summer of bushfires, storms and floods

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-13/insurance-premiums-pressured-by-bushfires-storms-and-floods/1...

 

who didnt see this comming?

of course i can imagine scomos response

shop around for a better deal

 

thats his cure for every problem

 

unhappy with your bank charges, shop around

unhappy with your power bill, shop around

unhappy with your water bill, shop around

ect ect

 


Shopping around definately works. Unfortunately most large businesses now build a " lazy tax " or " rusted on tax " into premiums or costs. Banks will slug you higher interest rates than new customers, telco,s will offer newer customers lower charges than existing customers who just do the same old same old and insurance companies do the same. I took a couple of hours to shop around with my insurance two years ago and saved over $1000 on my premium.

 

If you stubbonly refuse to follow Scomo's advice, just because he said it or its too much work for you to make a couple of phone calls, you cant blame the LNP when you get slugged with the private insurance companies " lazy " tax. 

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raising the cost of the policy AFTER the disaster is attempting to recoup the money they are paying out, nothing to do with living in an area of some possible danger.

how many homes burn down in the metroplitan area each year?

must be tripple the number in rural areas.

does every one in the street get a rise in their insurance premium because fred nerk fell asleep and left the stove on?

of course not.

 

btw, i would imagine once an area has been burnt its going to be a long time before that area would be considered 'dangerous'

nothing left to burn?

 

the premium should have been set right prior to the fire.

 

sure if you live in an area where you could be affected by bushfire you should make an effort to lower the risk

and bushfires are not new, so insurance companies should be setting prices to cover them.

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