North Queensland wakes to heartbreak and huge clean-up after Cyclone Debbie's visit
Daylight brought heartbreak for many north Queenslanders who woke to realise the full extent of the destruction wreaked by Cyclone Debbie.
Journalist
Daylight brought heartbreak for many north Queenslanders who woke to realise the full extent of the destruction wreaked by Cyclone Debbie.
What's left inside mostly wasn't in the best condition before Debbie's visit but the one thing John Andersen wanted to save, a newish flatscreen TV, is also gone.
Roofs have been wrenched from buildings, trees torn out of the ground and fences flattened but the full extent of Cyclone Debbie's carnage will be revealed as north Queenslanders emerge from their homes Wednesday morning.
On Monday afternoon, as the residents of Ayr were sandbagging, taping windows and preparing for the worst, Shane Borgas went fishing.
Down a long, skinny road to the water's edge, surrounded by trees and wildlife, these are the people who are staring down a cyclone, ignoring directions to leave their flood-prone homes.
Former copper Bill Stillaway felt "lucky" to have escaped with $40,000 damage and a tree through his roof when Cyclone Yasi tore through Townsville in 2011.
A wild weather system creeping toward the Queensland coast is expected to develop into a Tropical Cyclone much more quickly than first thought.
The first tropical cyclone to hit Queensland in two years is expected to cross the coast early next week, possibly bringing very destructive wind gusts of 165km/h or more.
It was just one decision in a "trailblazer's" decorated 26-year judicial career but it changed a teenage criminal's life.
A man is fighting for life in hospital after collapsing during a punch-up on the on the Gold Coast.
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