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| Could Crazy Clarks and the rest of the Goodna Town Centre have been saved? |
Residents of Brisbane and Ipswich are waiting anxiously for lawyers Maurice Blackburn to announce if they are proceeding with a class action over the devastating floods of 11 and 12 January 2011.
For the un-insured and under-insured, this may be the last hope for people to be compensated for their losses.
The Floods Commission has already ruled that Wivenhoe Dam was not managed in accordance with the Dam Operating Manual from 8.00am on Saturday 8 January 2011 and this was the direct cause of unnecessary flooding in suburbs affected by the Brisbane River.
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| Could this Red Rooster disaster have been avoided? |
Not only is this emerging as possibly Australia's largest class action, it may also represent the worst case of government maladministration in Australia since the First Fleet arrived in 1788.
The writer of a weekly online newsletter has already claimed the flood could have been up to 2 metres lower at the Brisbane City gauge had it been better managed.
The 2011 flood was officially 4.46 metres AHD (Australian Height Datum) at the Brisbane City gauge in the heart of Brisbane.
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| Did this have to happen to McDonald's Goodna store? |
At Goodna, it was 16.4 metres AHD. The further you go upstream, the higher the flood.
In the massive 1893 flood, the flood height in the heart of Brisbane was 8.35 metres while at Goodna it was a staggering 22.77 metres. These figures highlight the dramatic upstream effect of Brisbane River flooding compared with flood levels in the Brisbane CBD.
If the 2011 flood was not negligently managed and a 2 metre lower flood in the Brisbane CBD could have been achieved, the flood level would have been even more dramatic at Goodna - maybe even a three-fold decrease over that in the Brisbane CBD.
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| Did the people of Goodna have to suffer this catastrophe? |
If this is the case, former Premier Anna Bligh and Minister Stephen Robertson would have a lot to answer for and should be held personally liable if they can be shown to have acted negligently.
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| Is Anna Bligh personally resposnible for this mess? |
How many properties in Ipswich, Goodna or Brisbane might have been saved?
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| Where was Stephen Roberston during the flood crisis? Could he have directed the Wivenhoe Dam engineers to change their flawed strategy? |
The truth will eventually come out - and then all hell will break loose.
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