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One in a hundred

Blainey buckets the “one in a hundred year” hype

Crikey / Thursday, 4 October 2007

Bureaucrats, scientists, special interest groups and academics keen on making a dollar from disaster have discovered a new scam lately. They’ve started warning of “one in a hundred year” events – droughts, floods and fires. Unfortunately, one of our leading historians has come along to rain on the drought.