Mr. Rees quite rightly mentions personal lifestyle preferences.
However, we also need to remember that local government hungry for residential and business rate revenues and developers avid for less expensive land to sell on at a profit are also pushing the same dangerous (albeit attractive) lifestyle.
This same scenario can be seen playing out in the Northern Rivers coastal town of Yamba right now.
Not only is Clarence Valley Council seriously considering development of flood prone land at West Yamba, this same land sits directly above scrub and forest cover which extends further south into Yuraygir National Park.
When strong southerly winds are driving bushfires, the blaze can (and has) come raging up past Wooloweyah and begin knocking on West Yamba's door.
Which makes one narrow bridge over the Clarence estuary a very chancy exit for around 6,000 people.
Photograph from The Australian
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