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Australia makes list of 2025’s costliest climate events

AFR · last updated

Australia’s destructive ex-tropical cyclone Alfred has been ranked among the world’s most costly disasters fuelled by climate change in 2025.

Economic losses, caused by the fierce storm that savaged south-east Queensland and northern NSW in March, clocked in at roughly $US1.2 billion ($1.8 billion).

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