"The new city comes as Australia has faced an increasing number of bushfires, floods and other extreme climate events in recent years, forcing developers to find ways to overcome, or at least mitigate, the impact of a warming planet."

How did the old song go?"The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades. "Don’t worry if you can’t remember the melody —  I’m going back 30 years for the lyric, which comes courtesy of one-hit wonders Timbuk3.

Saturday deadline looms for development company to sign terms for pivotal site after providing evidence of €355m funding