Now What!

[Worrals in the wilds]

And you still pay it no matter how much you donated to the Qld Premier's Appeal (which ended up being means tested, something that wasn't made clear at the time, that's the last government run appeal I ever give money to and apologies to all the old cynics I disbelieved who said "It'll just go to the ferals, you wait and see" ),no matter how much flood debris you helped shovel out of affected places and no matter how much the floods indirectly cost your business.

The same Labor (albiet in state and local form) who encouraged rampant development on land every bugger in Brisbane/Ipswich knew was flood plain. "The dam will save us!" they cried. Guess it didn't, Soorley, Beattie, Bligh...Oops.