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By 3:30 p.m. local time, the Ross River Dam reached a capacity of 163.8%, causing Townsville's disaster management group to close it to the public and halt traffic to the area. [4] The Bruce Highway Ollera Creek Bridge north of Townsville collapsed due to the flooding, delaying or cutting supplies and access by road to different communities ...
Operation Queensland Flood Assist was a complex, multi-Service activity by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) as a contribution to the response to the 2010–2011 Queensland floods. Coordinated to aid civilian emergency response efforts, at Federal inter-departmental level it was managed by Emergency Management Australia .
The State Emergency Service (SES) in Queensland, Australia is a volunteer-based organisation of the Queensland Government and is a service within the Queensland Police Service (QPS), assisting with disaster management as an emergency services auxiliary. The current head of the SES is Chief Officer Mark Armstrong.
There are 21 Queensland Government departments, each responsible for delivering a portfolio of government legislation and policy. [1] Each portfolio area is led by a minister who is a senior member of the governing party in the state Legislative Assembly .
The three-day selection course is regarded as the most difficult and physically demanding course within the Queensland Police Service. It tests physical and mental endurance through individual and team tasks, problem solving, sleep deprivation, basic survival skills and by challenging phobias for example heights and closed spaces. [20]
The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history. Edwards Chambers has an association with the development of the motor industry in Rockhampton, and the company founded by Howard & Co which was one of the first businesses in Rockhampton to cater for the ...
Dozens of Head Start programs, which provide child care and preschool education to low-income children, have been unable to access previously approved federal funding, putting some programs at ...
The Cabinet of Queensland is the chief policy-making group of people within the Government of Queensland in Australia. Composition