Broadcast on ABC TV News24 on January 3, 2011.
Heavy rains and flooding have brought destruction from many communities in northern Queensland, but on the positive side many water storages are full.
The Peter Faust dam near Proserpine in northern Queensland, has spilled for the first time since it was built in 1990. Water suppliers are saying there are now at least three to five years of guaranteed water supply for the Proserpine Valley.
This report from ABC Rural’s Mackay reporter Nicky Redl.
Backstory: As no professional video cameras were available to rural radio reporters at the time, I shot this video on my small canon automatic camera with video function on a tripod, recorded the audio separately on a Marantz, and later synced the two. The good thing about not being supplied with professional video gear (I was a radio reporter after all) was that I had to get creative and figure out how to produce video anyway, using the available resources.