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National
Callum Godde

Climate change risks billions in roads, hospitals bills

Weather events risk causing billions of dollars of damage to road, rail, hospital and energy assets. (Susie Dodds/AAP PHOTOS)

Tens of billions of dollars worth of roads, rail, hospitals and energy assets in one state alone are at risk of damage or destruction from climate change-fuelled extreme weather.

In what has been billed as an Australian first, Victoria's independent infrastructure advisory mapped risks posed by climate change to state government-owned or regulated infrastructure.

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