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The nation grieves
David Marr THE rain stopped but the water kept coming all day. Three rivers emptied the hills behind Brisbane. The Bremer swamped Ipswich. The Lockyer tore through its valley, killing at least 10 people on the way. The upper Brisbane cascaded from the Wivenhoe Dam. And all that water was heading for Brisbane.
How Jordan died to save his brother
Peta Doherty and Nicky Phillips IT IS almost unimaginable the fear 13-year-old Jordan Rice would have felt as the car he and his family were in was pummelled by a wall of water.
Australia's next top barbecuer
Harriet Alexander reports on one man's mission to bring home a world grilling championship.
Provincial centres brace for the horrendous clean-up
Ben Cubby HERVEY BAY WHILE most residents in the Queensland town of Maryborough were waiting for the waters to go down, Bob Bauer was waiting for them to go up.
Chance to sell was ignored
Adam Carey RESIDENTS in flood-prone parts of Brisbane have largely ignored an opportunity to sell their properties to the local council.
Death hangs in air as search for bodies starts
Tom Reilly IT'S the cars that reveal the ferocity of the flood - especially a black sedan, its bonnet embedded in the creek bed, standing straight up. There are six more beside it and 20 others in paddocks surrounding Grantham, scattered as if a giant toddler had thrown them into a sandpit.
Survivors count the cost and look for victims
Ellie Harvey and Malcolm Brown THE growing ball of water racing through south-eastern Queensland takes stories with it downstream. Town by town in the Lockyer Valley - nestled between Toowoomba and Brisbane - debris, cars, houses and bodies are washing up in the water's wake.
Racing steward washed away with his car
Chris Roots and Kelsey Munro A MAN last seen with his wife and son stranded on the roof of their car in ferocious floods has been identified as James Perry, a chief racing steward in Toowoomba.
One good Samaritan and five lives saved in a day
Tom Reilly ROB WILKIN doesn't have a favourite biblical tale, but if he did, it should be Noah's ark.
Son changed his mind about staying, then disappeared
Nick Ralston THE last time anyone heard from Joshua Ross, a Grantham childcare worker, he was insisting that no mass of water was going to tear him away from the side of his wheelchair-bound mother.
Emergency specialists head north
Geesche Jacobsen EMERGENCY service workers, including fire officers, paramedics, engineers and hazardous materials specialists, left Sydney for Queensland yesterday. They are expected to be deployed in the Lockyer Valley.
Groceries going via NT and sea barges
Jacob Saulwick HOW do you supply the best part of a state when its highway system is splintered and its biggest port is swamped by debris and closed for business?
Captain Bligh steers the ship in face of adversity
ANNE DAVIES The caring Premier is seemingly on top of everything as she helps steer Queensland through its darkest hour, writes Anne Davies.
Water level drops but residents warned to wait for the clean up
Courtney Trenwith ANNE SMART has never seen water rise so fast.
Residents ignored disaster warnings
Lindsay Murdoch BRISBANE BRUCE LIDDLE feared murky brown water was creeping up around his 80-year-old mother, who lives alone in a ground-level house a short walk from the flooded Brisbane River.
Living through Apocalypse Maybe
A city's sense of itself is subverted and the present is a foreign country, writes Nick Earls.
High tide brought welcome tidings
The flood was terrifying, but so were the onlookers, writes Frank Robson.
Paintings moved to higher ground, but stage shows might not go on
Joyce Morgan QUEENSLAND Art Gallery faces an anxious wait until late tonight to discover if any of its valuable collection has been damaged.
Clarence at door, hopes remain high
Josephine Tovey GRAFTON THOUSANDS of Grafton residents were hoping the city's levees would hold last night as the mighty Clarence, now a kilometre wide in parts and moving fast, continued to disrupt life in the region.
Companies run numbers as disaster spreads to construction and retail
Ben Butler CORPORATE Australia is beginning to count the cost of the deadly Queensland floods that have smashed railways, flooded mines and closed factories.
Premier inspects damage
Brian Robins GRAFTON THE Premier, Kristina Keneally, yesterday declared the Clarence Valley and Inverell natural disaster-affected areas, giving them access to additional government financial assistance.
Drivers spending more of their lives in the slow lane
Andrew West TRAVEL times on some of Sydney's main roads now stretch to more than two hours, especially during the morning peak hour, industry research shows.
Academic paints a picture of arts as a priority in classrooms
Dan Harrison EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT THE arts should be embedded in the teaching of all subjects as a way of cultivating creativity and imagination in schoolchildren, according to a paper published yesterday by the Australian Council for Educational Research.
Neighbour thought girl was autistic, inquest told
Kim Arlington COURTS WHEN a neighbour told Pablo Comas his two-year-old daughter, Maia, might be autistic, he put his hand to his forehead and said: "Oh, you're right."
After-school exercise dropping in NSW despite federal push
Julie Robotham HEALTH EDITOR A HIGH-PROFILE federal government program to increase children's physical activity levels has failed in NSW, with participants no more likely to meet recommended exercise targets than other children the same age.
Electricity inquiry gets Fazio's tick
Alexandra Smith STATE POLITICS THE president of the Legislative Council, Labor MP Amanda Fazio, has been persuaded to support the upper house inquiry into the controversial sale of the state's electricity assets but warned it should proceed with ''caution''.
People smugglers used us, Western Union admits
Vanda Carson WESTERN UNION has conceded that its money transfer service has been used by people smugglers to fund their illegal operations.
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