Building resilience into infrastructure

摘要

Dorothea Mackellar penned "My Country" more than 100 years ago, a poem that captures the extremes of the Australian climate - droughts, floods and fires, yet still the Australian community struggles to deal with these events. It is expected that as Australia's population grows and its economy expands, more people and assets will become vulnerable to the impacts of extreme weather events. But isn't vulnerability just a design flaw? Does Australia need to change its design standards to ensure infrastructure can withstand the effects of extreme events?