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Environment
Poppy Johnston

Climate risk main reason premiums are rising: insurers

Worsening extreme weather and natural disasters are pushing up premiums, insurers say. (Glen Watson/AAP PHOTOS)

Australian households are enduring sharp increases in insurance premiums but market concentration and a lack of competition is only part of the story.

Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has hinted at powers to break up major insurance companies to bring down premiums, in line with an existing coalition pledge to introduce "last-resort" divesture laws for the duopoly-dominated supermarket sector.

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