Flooded Home Buyback scheme helps wash away the pain for Queenslanders
- Written by Margaret Cook, Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
JONO SEARLE/AAPIt’s almost a year since floods devastated parts of Ipswich in Southeast Queensland.
Over the course of four days (February 25-28 2022), Ipswich received 682 millimetres of rain and the Bremer River rose to 16.72m in the centre of the city. Parts of the city were inundated, and almost 600 homes were damaged, many severely.
Many...
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