Sally Sara: It's the music festival that turns one of Queensland's most isolated towns into a city for three days. Declan Gooch: This year's Big Red Bash was bookended by rain. Senior Constable Stephan Pursell is the officer in charge of the Birdsville Police Station and says most of the thousands of festival goers got out of town just in …
An "unusual" winter drenching has dumped up to 50 millimetres of rain on parts of outback Queensland. Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Felim Hanniffy said some areas in the state's far west had recorded up to 10 times the average July rainfall in a weekend. "The highest officially recorded amount was Glenormiston, north-west of Bedourie … potentially its heaviest July …