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In the Cosmos Synergy column, our staff writers explore how we’re dealing with the urgent issues of climate change.
“It’s terrifying, you live with the absolute fear of it happening again.”
Jennifer Woods had lived in Wagga Wagga her whole life, a single parent of four children, a social worker and no stranger to what life on a floodplain might throw the way of anyone living there: the town has learnt to cope with floods – 60 have been registered since Federation.
But in March 2012, authorities started issuing evacuation warnings, the Murrumbidgee River was overflowing and poised to breach the…