The cost of responding to bushfires, storms and cyclones after the fact is likely to be 11 times greater, Apra warns
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in response and recovery costs, he said covering those losses would require the community to invest about $3.5bn a year to prevent the worst impacts. “That’s an enormous sum, but it’s much smaller than the $39bn cost,” he said.