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"As flood waters rose in Brisbane’s West End in February 2022, Brendon Donohue
was trapped alone in his second-storey apartment for 10 days. The 33-year-old
is legally blind and his movement is limited by Peters plus syndrome. He
received evacuation alerts on his phone in the middle of the night. But with
the lift, intercom and front entrance shut down he had no safe way out of the
building.
“It was terrifying,” he says. “The whole street was badly impacted with water.
The power went out, which made me not able to contact anyone. I ran out of food
but couldn’t get any into the building.”
Four years on, Donohue has joined a unique legal complaint, along with nine
other Australians. Each has a specific story, but they say they see a
through-line – that they have each been hurt by the climate crisis in a way
that can be directly linked to the Australian government’s continuing support
for fossil fuel developments for export."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
