BellingenNSW<p>The impacts of fossil fuel emissions are gnawing on Australia's coastline</p><p>"Australia's exposure to current and future risks from the sea, including coastal erosion, king tides and rising sea levels, was "very high", The Insurance Council of Australia.</p><p>"Sea level rise caused by climate change would mean the issue was not going away, and Australians needed to consider what we valued about our coastline."</p><p>"Why a seawall might not protect both beaches and homes from coastal erosion...We'll end up with a giant wall around our beaches, or around our whole coastline. That's not saving the landscape, that's saving the infrastructure. We've got to slow down development and look at what we value about the beach."</p><p>Professor Kennedy "said governments would need to consider buying back beachfront land and rehabilitating it, to protect both infrastructure and the beach."<br>>><br><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-22/frankston-seawall-tides-costal-erosion-housing-australia/105555380" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-07-22/fra</span><span class="invisible">nkston-seawall-tides-costal-erosion-housing-australia/105555380</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Coast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/erosion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>erosion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/inundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inundation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SeaLevel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeaLevel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/values" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>values</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Coastal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coastal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/sprawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sprawl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/StrandedAssets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StrandedAssets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SandCastles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SandCastles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/walls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>walls</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/PublicLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicLand</span></a></p>