We are a resilient and supportive community on the Cradle Coast, with a long history of facing and
overcoming the challenges of dealing with occasional extremes of weather and dramatic economic
cycles. However recent years have seen an amplification of these challenges that is testing even our
ability to deal with them. The recent intense rainfall events that have battered our island are
bringing home to us the challenges of living in a changing climate. Changes in our demography have
meant we are an aging community which is increasingly vulnerable to illnesses which will diminish
quality of life and stretch an already stretched health care system. Our abundant natural resources
and long association with primary industries brings in great wealth but that wealth is very lumpy,
creating booms and busts of population and investment that can be very disruptive for local
economies.
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