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For 24/7 coverage, visit ABCNews24 Please donate to the Official Qld Govt Floods appeal , and/or support any fundraising events being arranged around the world. I must admit I underestimated the earlier stage of the Queensland floods, with the misguided logic that few people lived in most of the places affected. Now the rain belts have moved south and it's disastrous. The sheer volume of water set to flow down the Brisbane River is impossible to grasp - twice the size of Sydney harbour, down a river which is quite narrow in places. Photos can't do justice to the Qld floods, look at the speed of the water & where the cars finished And this is what is looked like before the rain The Drift restaurant lives up to its name. Later news footage showed the platform still floating, but virtually destroyed. Toowoomba and Ipswich have seen the worst of it, but Brisbane has a few hours left before the river is expected to peak. Thankfully my friends and family there liv...

No, it's not southern USA, it's northern Queensland. Race club officials suspended for drinking on the job Dear oh dear. You might have got away with this in the 70s but ... then again, north Queensland is a wee bit behind the times!