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The inland tsunami. How to donate. Tasmania hit. Authors for Queensland …
Picture: From ABC Online (Supplied, Anthony Farmer)
Donate to the Qld Premier’s Flood Appeal HERE
Details on Salvos appeal:
Donations to The Salvation Army’s Flood Appeal can be made by calling 13 SALVOS (137258), by going online to www.salvos.org.au, or by visiting any Woolworths or Big W store nationally. Donations are tax deductible.
Donations can also be made in person at any branch of the Commonwealth Bank, NAB, Westpac, ANZ, BOQ, Suncorp, St George Bank or BankSA, or at Coles supermarkets.
TFGA points Tasmanian farmers to Queensland flood help, HERE
Authors for Queensland: An auction to raise money for the Queensland Flood appeal organised by a Tasmanian writer Local author, Kate Gordon, has organised an International Writers’ auction to raise money for the Queensland Flood Appeal. The auction- which is now up and running at http://authorsforqueensland.wordpress.com/ will raise funds to go directly to the Queensland Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal. On TT: HERE
Other breaking news reports on Queensland, and now Tasmania: TT News dropdown, or Links
Maate,comment: You may have noticed that the drainage lines from the Great Divide plateau at Toowoomba down to the Lockyer Valley lacked significant riparian vegetation. The rainforests and riparian communities that grow around gullies, streams, creeks and rivers capture the flotsam and jetsam that get caught in deluges. Vegetation catches the detritus and sequentially dams and slows floodwaters. The “inland tsunami” could not have happened if riparian communities were intact. This comment appears on Rob Blakers’ comment, This arrogant, selfish game of Russian Roulette, HERE