Video broadcast on March 1, 2011 on ABC national television News 24 and audio on ABC Radio National. Cyclone Yasi hasn’t just wrought havoc on land in northern Queensland. The destructive winds of the category five system have destroyed coral and marine life in the Great Barrier Reef and disturbed fish stocks. The Great Barrier…
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…
Broadcast on ABC Local Radio Queensland’s Country Hour on May 7, 2010. Despite the uproar in the mining industry over the government super tax, Queensland businessman Clive Palmer says he’ll go ahead with the huge Waratah megamine project in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland. The resources sector says that the new tax will thwart…
Broadcast on ABC Radio National’s Bush Telegraph on March 31, 2010. How would you feel if a tree crashed into your house leaving you trapped in there with no power, no running water, or even a mobile phone for a week? That’s exactly what happened to Guy Fletchere-Davies during cyclone Ului in Queensland’s north. Nicky…