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Parts of Brisbane continue to be impacted by floods time and time again.

Questions have been raised as to whether Brisbane can be somehow 'flood-proofed'.

QLD and NT manager for the Planning Institute of Australia, Nicole Bennetts told Bill McDonald on 4BC Mornings, "We've got an urgent need for more of the right homes, but we need to make sure they're in the right places so that future residents are safe from these future floods."

"I raised the idea that our settlement patterns need to change over time. What that means is a retreat from extreme hazard-prone areas," Ms. Bennetts continued.

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The Brisbane City Council has declared to evict the Brisbane homeless community out of the city's parks.

According to councils, crisis accommodation has been offered and refused, homeless advocates dispute those claims. 

Housing Minister Sam O’Connor told Bill McDonald, "Every person that we can engage with we are trying to get into this emergency accommodation."

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Paul Slater from Northwest Community Group has responded to claims from the Brisbane City Council that the homeless community are knocking back offers of emergency accommodation.

Paul Slater told Bill McDonald on 4BC Mornings, "They are not being offered accommodation, we need to be very clear about that."

"They haven't been offered accommodation, they've been sitting outside of offices, they've been talking to charities, they've been waiting and waiting and waiting and they are not being offered accommodation."

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Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has declared that the Brisbane homeless community would be given 24 hours to leave the city's public parks, to bring the standards in line with the Moreton Bay Council. 

Lord Mayor, Adrian Schrinner told Bill McDonald on 4BC Mornings, "When you look at people living in tents in parks, you assume that they've got no options... But we're seeing that that's not actually the case anymore.

"Maybe a couple of years ago, it was the case when all of the accommodation was full and there was no crisis accommodation, but now the State Government's telling us they do have crisis accommodation available and it's being knocked back."

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