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The 2025 Queensland floods refer to significant ongoing flooding that is impacting the northeast Australia state of Queensland in late January and early February 2025. The disaster resulted in at least two fatalities and prompted mass evacuation orders in Queensland's coastal regions. [2] [1]
“The north and all of regional Queensland are at the mercy of one road,” Premier Crisafulli said. “There is an opportunity through disaster to build back better.” Record rainfall
Far North Queensland lays claim to over 70 national parks, including Mount Bartle Frere; with a peak of 1,622 metres (5,322 ft) it is the highest peak in both Northern Australia and Queensland. The Far North region is the only region of Australia that is the indigenous country of both Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders .
The Mount Mulligan mine disaster occurred on 19 September 1921 in Mount Mulligan, Far North Queensland, Australia. A series of explosions in the local coal mine , audible as much as 30 km away, rocked the close-knit township .
Queensland Places. Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland. "Town map of Babinda". Queensland Government. 1971. Watch historical footage of Babinda, Cairns and Far North Queensland Archived 12 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's collection; Bell, Peter (1999 ...
Queensland's raw coal production declined by more one third in late 2010 and was slow to recover. Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser said it was not possible to put a figure on the damage; "other than to say the damage bill is going to start with a b and not an m". [140] [141] The floods will cost the Australian economy at least A$10 billion. [142]
The Tinaroo Dam, officially the Tinaroo Falls Dam, is a major ungated concrete gravity dam with a central ogee spillway across the Barron River located on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia. The dam's purpose includes irrigation for the Mareeba-Dimbulah Irrigation Scheme, water supply, hydroelectricity generation, and ...
Ion Idriess in his far north Queensland gold prospecting story, wrote about Ngarrabullgan as follows: "Farther out in those Chillagoe lands an outstanding landmark on the Hodgkinson is a massive wall of rock overlooking 'Mulligan's goldfield'. A meeting-place of the aborigines from time immemorial, it has seen the passing of a thousand tribes ...