‘It sounded like a washing machine’: Remembering the night Cyclone Yasi hit Queensland

I was a journalist in Cairns at the time and was sent south to cover the preparations for Yasi before bunkering down for the aftermath. We had motels booked from Innisfail to Ingham. A photographer ...

From Willis to Jasper: A history of the cyclones that have defined the Far North

Cairns has endured cyclones since the city’s founding 150 years ago, very natural and commonly used. turning devastation into an art of rebuilding and shaping the city’s remarkable resilience.
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Cyclone Alfred is already retraumatising people who’ve lived through other disasters. I’m one of them

La Trobe University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. In 2011, as Cyclone Yasi approached the Queensland coast, I sat in my home in the tropical far north of the state and worried ...