Bodies of Chinese tourists found trapped inside car in Queensland floods Pair were on their way to take up fruit-picking jobs when they were caught in floods The Independent UK · Mar 12
Movers muster into Gympie and other towns off the track Australians continue to escape to the country, but growing regional towns are calling for better funding to support their changing populations. AAP · Mar 18, 2025
Flood-hit residents say it's impractical to raise their homes to the heights required to receive funding Since floodwaters rose a metre above the floorboards of his high-set home, Des Lawlor has been desperate to raise it higher. But to qualify for funding it'll need to be so high off the ground it would be impractical to live in. ABC News · Feb 25, 2023
Floodwaters cut Bruce Highway at Gympie, as low-lying business owners evacuate As the Queensland town is isolated by floodwaters for the third time since January, residents and main street business owners are again preparing for the worst. ABC News · May 14, 2022
They won their appeal for flood assistance, now these farmers vow to help other devastated producers A passionate young farming couple who won their appeal to access flood assistance, are joining a national fight to change what they say is an outdated definition of what it means to be a primary producer in times of natural disaster ABC News · Apr 6, 2022
A month on from Gympie's floods, residents from more than 100 properties are still displaced Des Lawlor has made a makeshift bath next to the shed and RV he is living in with his wife and their six children, one month since the town's worst flood in more than 100 years. ABC News · Mar 27, 2022
Hundreds of Gympie residents forced to evacuate, man dies in floods, as city inundated Hundreds of Gympie residents have been told to leave their homes as the south-east Queensland city is inundated, and police have found the body of a man missing in the floods. ABC News · Feb 25, 2022