When a tropical storm hit the shores of eastern Australia last week, it battered most of the beaches along a 300-mile stretch of coastline that draws millions of tourists each year. Now, local governments and volunteers are working to clean up the destruction. This rare storm is just the latest example of increasingly extreme weather events in Australia. Climate change has left the country often battling multiple natural disasters at once. Leila Goldstein reports from Brisbane.
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