Maddelin McCosker
Rural Reporter at ABC News (Australia)
🤠 @ABCRural Reporter, based in western Queensland. Thoughts/retweets/likes are my own.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Abbey Halter |Hannah Walsh |Maddelin McCosker
Widespread flooding in Western Queensland is beginning to ease for property owners. Graziers are beginning to take stock of the damage, particularly to significant infrastructure. Volunteers are gearing up to rally with communities and help clear away the remaining damage. The sun is shining on Queensland grazier Louise Hoch's cattle station, but after weeks of record-breaking floods, the damage is hard to fathom. Warning: This story contains an image some readers may find distressing.
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Maddelin McCosker |Kallee Buchanan
A charity tasked with supplying hay to flood-affected graziers in western Queensland says fears fodder drops are being held up by biosecurity concerns over red fire ants are unfounded. As the flooding disaster unfolded this week, Queensland's Department of Primary Industries engaged Rural Aid, a not-for-profit that supports farmers during natural disasters, to coordinate hay and feed drops for animals that managed to survive the rising water. More than 1,000 bales of hay have since been delivered.
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Maddelin McCosker |Abbey Halter
Early estimates indicate more 105,348 head of livestock are dead or lost in the ongoing outback Queensland floods. Industry figures say the losses could be "catastrophic" for graziers. The total number of livestock lost will not be known until floodwaters subside. More than 100,000 cattle and sheep are estimated to be dead or missing in the devastating flooding continuing in outback Queensland. WARNING: This story contains images that may be distressing.
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Hannah Walsh |Maddelin McCosker
Ange Lawson can smell the stench of dead rams around her property. "They were in the gum trees, hanging in trees, up against roots and rocks," Ms Lawson said from her station, 120 kilometres west of Longreach. "They wouldn't have had any chance with the way that water came across. It flattened fences."In some parts of western Queensland the record floodwaters have subsided, leaving graziers and other property owners to survey the devastation.
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Maddelin McCosker |Hannah Walsh |Kallee Buchanan
As floodwaters slowly ease for some parts of western Queensland, other towns are bracing for the peak. Residents say it has been devastating seeing livestock and wildlife taken by floodwaters. The Bureau of Meteorology says floodwaters could take a month to reach Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre. The race is on to save outback towns as a record-breaking flood sweeps through western Queensland, taking livestock and livelihoods with it.
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