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Australia is mostly ruined in the top 3/4. The bottom section where most of the people live will be relatively okay.
The >50⁰C heat waves in Melbourne when the wind is northwesterly in summer aren't going to be fun. By the end of the century there could be occasional fatal wet bulb temperatures.
(the current record is 46⁰C in 2009, but extremes get more extreme)
the outback is expanding i heard.
When sea levels rise enough all the coastal cities will be gone
Elevation levels are not the same across the world.
At an extreme 10 metre rise, nearly all of Bangladesh will be under water while Melbourne and Sydney will only lose a small bit of land.