@Sailor FNQ; re your post which included "...
my place in Cairns over the last 30 years used to cost less than $1000 pa for 10 years, then less than $1500 pa for the next 10 years. ..."
It sounds as though your insurers have been hacking your Hot Copper Account and now realise just how bad a risk you are.
I've a brother-in-law who lives in Gordanvale who tells me that local risks include crocodiles, blue bottles, cane toads, Chinese virus carrying fruit bats, stone fish, rays, taipans, the volatility of tourism and even bluddy ALIENS!
I guess such things explain why not built an international airport at sea level, Ok?
