Friday 3rd May 1996
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The South East of Queensland has experienced its heaviest rains ever. In just 54 hours nearly 12" of rain has been dumped on the global office. Later today I will post a picture of the Brisbane river running past our home. It has risen at least 10 metres and is flowing very, very fast down the centre with dangerous little eddies and currents on the edges. We have never ever seen the river this high before and yet the rain is still pouring down. Tomorrow we had planned to cover the 1996 Royal Australian Air Force Air Show live. I wonder if it will be held now?
The low lying bridges are cut off, Colleges Crossing our normal entry point to Ipswich is under water and the Kholo Creek on our way to Brisbane is flooding the Moggill road. We are effectively cut off from the world on a small strip of land in the Karana Downs / Mt Crosby suburb.
Our house is a good 20 metres above the current river level and even though it is rising very fast we are quite confident that it won't reach our doorstep! It is quite eery though!!
There were hundreds of phone calls for broken down cars, the roads were in chaos and over 100 accidents were reported in Brisbane.
A weather spokesman has said that rain should ease later today. The cause of the flooding has been a low being "squeezed" up against a high in the Tasman sea.. Winds of 90 kilometres per hour are expected today.
His views are contrary to those of leading economists who have been warning that the cuts might bring the growth in the Australian economy to a halt.
The Reserve Bank were quick to announce that the population should not expect a drop in interest rates as they are determined to keep inflation at low levels. Sound to me like the World Bank with its big brother attitude is now taking its pound of flesh for the sins and extravagances of the Australians in the past.
Well, the pretty obvious reaction has happened with "politically correct" civil liberty and Aboriginal support groups slamming the moves calling them outrageous. They claim that the new laws will put them under financial strain and that they did not deal with the cause of the offending.
Their view is best summed up by Ron Finney, Brisbane Aboriginal Legal Service senior solicitor, who said: "Many of the offending kids we deal with end up in trouble as a result of socio-economic factors and dysfunctional families, so it is almost double jeopardy to punish the parents again for their circumstances."
OK Mr Finney who pays then when they break into someone's house and steal their TV? Give me a break. No pain no gain. Move on Premier let's get those new laws in and force the parents to take effective action by hitting their pockets if their kids steal from others.. that will stop the bleating and bring down levels of crime dramatically!
Well, its all up there under International. I am going to be ensconsed in the Global Office today - and yes I can assure you that that
placid looking river in the "global office" link looks like a new and ugly character today! Tonight we had planned to take Martin and Penny
(our South African friends) on a boat cruise on the Kookaburra Queen. The same trip that we took
Phil Uys our partner in GLOBE International on.
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