With the flood waters receding in Queensland – giving us our first real look at the size of the damage involved – Possum Comitatus discusses what happened on the economic front immediately following the last big South East Queensland flood drama in January 1974.
Seldom has an Australian politician received the kind of accolades accorded to Queensland Premier Anna Bligh after the disastrous floods that engulfed her state.
Along with the piles of furniture and junk lining Brisbane streets severely affected by the Queensland floods are thousands of volunteers. Households and business owners are being inundated with help from those whose houses fared better, writes Emma Buckley Lennox.
In front of my mother-in-law's home, the Brisbane River becomes a bay; a quiet inlet of tiny mud crabs and mangroves, writes Patty Beecham on her blog site.
During the past week, we've been treated to wall-to-wall television coverage of the Brisbane and Queensland floods. But does disaster porn really facilitate empathy? writes Michael Mullins, editor of Eureka Street.
Watch Queensland turn brown in this very clever interactive photo gallery showing high resolution pictures of Brisbane suburbs, Ipswich and regional Queensland both before and after the recent flooding.
Toowoomba resident Jim Forbes left his wife and four-year-old daughter to head in to work in Brisbane on Monday, leaving just before the floods hit his family and his hometown.
While the media are getting caught up reporting widespread looting in the aftermath of the Queensland floods, research shows that looting is usually non-existent after a natural disaster, writes Crikey Intern Liam Mannix.
Despite many iconic cultural institutions being sited right on the river bank, most seem to have survived any serious and lasting damage.
A Royal Commission on the Queensland floods should be set up by the Bligh government as soon as possible, an expert in public inquiry says. But unlike the review into Victoria's deadly Black Saturday fires, any flood inquest is unlikely to become a witch hunt, with the focus on how any future disaster can be avoided.
