Queensland Floods Commission report Roundtable
The Queensland Floods Commission released its interim report today. Prominent findings are reported at the ABC. The full text of the report can be found here. We hope to revisit the report with some analysis in the near future, but [...]
Quick link: The flood levy announcement
Peter Martin has all the details of the federal government’s budgetary and levy measures for flood reconstruction here. The spending cuts are rather interesting – as well as the demise of the Cash for Clunkers promise/thought bubble, a number of [...]
Larvatus Prodeo Lifeline Queensland floods fundraising appeal
As previewed on this post, LP is sponsoring a fundraiser to assist those affected by the Queensland floods. We specifically went looking for a cause which would target funds to those who are likely to be already disadvantaged, and decided to partner with Lifeline Queensland.
The federal ALP and deficit and leadership aversion
Grog’s Gamut has written a typically lively and well reasoned post on the question of a temporary levy to pay for flood reconstruction: Now she was right to an extent – a reason for running a surplus is that if [...]
Wivenhoe dam management
Unable to wait for the outcomes of the Queensland floods royal commission all sorts of people have been quick out of the blocks to criticise the management of the Wivenhoe Dam. An early one suggested outright that the flood peak [...]
Social capital, social networking and the Brisbane floods
My colleague in several incarnations, Dr John Harrison, has a neat post on social capital and the SEQ floods at jmaced: The good thing is that communities with high levels of social capital recover from adverse circumstances faster than those [...]
Toowoomba flood pics
The main purpose of this post is to share some photos sent to me taken by my cousin’s brother-in-law in Toowoomba. But first some context. Paul Norton described the topography of Toowoomba thus: Just to give people some idea of [...]
Brisbane flood maps and up to date flood information
Latest updates for the flood situation around Brisbane.
Queensland floods get worse
ABC News: The death toll looks set to rise while a desperate search for survivors begins in the wake of devastating flash floods across southern Queensland yesterday. Eight people are dead and 72 missing after flash floods hit the Darling [...]
Queensland floods
That BOM map shows in terms of percentage of averages where it’s been raining in Australia in December. In Queensland it has been up to six times and more compared to the average. This map shows the actual millimetres:
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