âCome home now or you wonât make itâ: Day of flood horror Former Queensland Times reporter Melanie Maeseele reported from Grantham for several days after becoming stranded there during the 2011 floods.
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Subscriber only IT IS hard to believe it s been a decade since the devastating 2011 floods that destroyed so many lives and livelihoods in the Lockyer Valley. Some memories from that fateful day - 10 January - will stay with me forever, others you try to forget for self-preservation. Those January floods in Queensland amounted to the worst natural disaster in the state s history; dozens of people died and billions of dollars in damage was caused.
Ten years on: Baby Montannahâs rescue lifted spirits Warrant Officer Tony Young carries baby Montannah to drier land in Gatton in 2011. Picture: Jack Tran
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Subscriber only She s taller than her mum now, a long-limbed 11-year-old going through a growth spurt, but look into Montannah Creaser s blue eyes and you can still see the baby who brought us hope. At 13-months, Montannah s steady gaze into a camera s lens in the midst of chaos added to the power of one of the most iconic images of the rescue effort during the horrific floods of 2011. She was wet and bedraggled and being cradled by a soldier.
Ten years on: Baby Montannahâs rescue lifted spirits Warrant Officer Tony Young carries baby Montannah to drier land in Gatton in 2011. Picture: Jack Tran
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Subscriber only She s taller than her mum now, a long-limbed 11-year-old going through a growth spurt, but look into Montannah Creaser s blue eyes and you can still see the baby who brought us hope. At 13-months, Montannah s steady gaze into a camera s lens in the midst of chaos added to the power of one of the most iconic images of the rescue effort during the horrific floods of 2011. She was wet and bedraggled and being cradled by a soldier.
When former Jackie Trad stood up in April to announce the first major element of the Palaszczuk Government s worker s assistance package, the path through COVID looked dire. Treasury were forecasting 272,000 Queenslanders would be on the dole queue by June 30 - with a state unemployment rate of around 10 per cent. Queensland Health were planning for one million people to be infected and warned at least 30,000 would die if the virus wasn t contained. Former deputy premier and treasurer Jackie Trad. Picture: Jack Tran We had no idea how long we d be working from home and people were losing their jobs left right and centre, particularly in the travel and hospitality sectors.
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