Brisbane—city of floods

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Recorded27 Mar 2022

Publisherabc.net.au ↗

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Brisbane is a city all too familiar with floods, despite decades of dredging, straightening and dam building. Although each flood is remembered for the community spirit and resilience shown by the people who endured it, they reveal the risks inherent in a city built on a flood plain.

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