The community spirit of those who turned out to help is a great example of Queenslanders at their best, writes Brisbane resident Richard Scott.
You have to take every tick-a-box website poll with a grain of salt, but one from Fairfax representing overwhelming support of the manner with which Anna Bligh has handled the Queensland flood crisis is spot on, writes Richard Farmer.
Crikey media wrap: The water hasn't finished receding and the cleanup has barely begun, but the blame game has already started. Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman is calling for an "open and transparent inquiry", run by the state, into the floods.
After the recent shooting in Arizona, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma in the US has put together some resources for journalists and news managers covering the shooting.
Only last year Queensland authorities were considering lowering the flood prevention buffer at the Wivenhoe Dam -- the buffer which is currently preventing a whole lot more water flowing into Brisbane. But the Queensland Water Commission stopped short of advocating a reduction in flood mitigation levels.
Brisbane is a hilly city, which makes the floods all the trickier. Instead of entire neighbourhoods going under (although many did) a lot of the damage is in small pockets of the suburbs, writes Barclay White from Indooroopilly.
The waters were rising fast and Patty Beecham's mother-in-law had to leave behind her house of 44 years. Beecham documents the painful process of packing up memories and leaving it all behind.
Accounting for its residents, recovering their lives, remains Queensland's greatest challenge.
Crikey live blog: The flood levels may be dropping in Ipswich and Brisbane, but Goondiwindi is bracing for record levels of 10.85 metres, warned Anna Bligh.
During this morning's press conference Queensland Premier Anna Bligh continued to evoke Queensland's devastating floods of 1974 to give Queenslanders, especially those in Ipswich and Brisbane today, an indication of what lay ahead.
