AGM – with guest Speaker Steve Turton: ‘Queensland on the Frontline as Climate Risks Escalate’

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THECA AGM April 29th, 2026 (Refreshments start at 6:30 p.m. business begins at 7:00 p.m.)
 
The meeting is for the following purposes:
approve the  Minutes of the 2025 AGM

• receive the annual report of the activities of THECA;

• receive the annual financial statements, including the auditor’s report, and to appoint an auditor for the following year;

• elect the members of the management committee for the following year.
  
  The formal business of the meeting will be followed by Steve’s presentation:

  Queensland is emerging as Australia’s most climate-exposed state, facing intensifying natural hazards and growing risks to communities, infrastructure and the economy. Experts warn that without urgent action to limit global warming, parts of the state could become unliveable and uninsurable within decades.

  Queensland is Australia’s most climate-exposed state, with its large, decentralised population and already hot tropical and subtropical climates placing it on the frontline of global warming.

  • Climate change will amplify natural hazards across the state, increasing pressure on health systems, critical infrastructure, ecosystems and key industries—and pushing emergency services to their limits.

  • More frequent and intense heatwaves, bushfires, floods and tropical cyclones will heighten risks to life and property, disrupt communities and drive migration away from the most vulnerable regions.

  • On current warming trajectories, parts of Queensland risk becoming unliveable and uninsurable within decades, with far-reaching economic and social consequences.

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