Did the home of the Melbourne Cup make the city’s floods worse?

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When an inner suburb of Melbourne was hit by flooding a few weeks ago, attention turned to Flemington Racecourse: home of the Melbourne Cup.The track is a floodplain, and in prior floods it had become submerged in water. But not this time.This year, a new flood wall protected it. But could the wall that saved Flemington Racecourse have doomed nearby houses? Or is that debate obscuring the bigger problems facing our cities as the climate crisis closes in?Today, associate editor of The Saturday Paper Martin McKenzie-Murray on the Maribyrnong flood.Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and InstagramGuest: Associate editor of The Saturday Paper Martin McKenzie-MurraySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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