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Fears for missing people as Qld flood assessors calculate damage
Hundreds of homes have been damaged in recent Queensland floods, and among the missing is a man lost in the Brisbane River at South Bank.
- by Cloe Read
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Brisbane residents paid $420K for ‘rigged’ flood review, councillor claims
Former Queensland governor Paul de Jersey was paid $220,000 for his review, and his staffer $200,000.
- by Cloe Read
Dam or be damned: Campbell Newman revisits 2014 plan for flood protection
An “incensed” former Queensland premier says sites for new dams that could protect 10,000 homes in Brisbane and Ipswich from flooding are being ignored.
- by Tony Moore
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Flood of claims to come for $771m Queensland home retrofit program
While applications for the flood funds open in a fortnight, Brisbane’s lord mayor says council’s damage bill from February’s disaster could be triple the $440m outlay of 2011.
- by Tony Moore and Matt Dennien
Brisbane flood review recommends engineering solutions, more buybacks
Former Queensland governor and chief justice Paul de Jersey has released his long-awaited findings into the February floods.
- by Tony Moore
‘Nobody knew quite how horrific it was going to be’
Freelance writer and Northern Rivers resident Candida Baker talks about this year’s catastrophic flooding of Australia’s east coast.
‘I can’t stand the sound of rain’: The grief that’s united a region
While the catastrophic flooding on Australia’s east coast left the NSW Northern Rivers in chaos, it also bonded its residents like never before.
- by Candida Baker
Window of opportunity to resurrect Lismore closing, banks and insurers warn
Flood-hit Lismore urgently needs the details of key actions, resources and timing for any future rebuild.
- by Heath Gilmore
‘This flood is in all our bodies’: Inquiry leaders face Lismore disaster grief head-on
The community members focused on failures: inadequate flood watch warnings, a breakdown of emergency response, a collapse of essential telecommunications and the feeling that they were abandoned for days by state and federal leaders.
- by Heath Gilmore
One in 25 homes uninsurable by 2030 due to climate change, new study finds
The public can check the risk of climate dangers to their suburb, electorate or local government area using a new interactive map.
- by Nick O'Malley