A flood historian has called on authorities to stop people from moving into flood plains following another major deluge that saw thousands of homes inundated and over AU$2.5 billion (US$1.9 billion) of damage in southeast Queensland. Margaret Cook, author of A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods, said billions of dollars were being poured into “band-aid solutions” to fix damaged roads, rail lines, ferries, and ferry terminals. “We’re going to spend millions and millions and months and months fixing stuff,” the lecturer at the University of Sunshine Coast told The Epoch Times. “What I’m saying is don’t fix it back the same way. We spend 93 percent of our dollars on recovery and seven percent on preparation.” “If we even started spending maybe 40 percent of our money on moving people or redesigning cities, then in the longer term, it would be more cost-effective,” she said. …