Noosa on Queensland's Sunshine Coast is renowned for its fine food, beautiful beaches, national parks and its pristine network of waterways that form one of only two everglade systems in the world, the other being in Florida. Like dozens of other landholders, graziers Jeanette and Bruce Glasby are working with Landcare to remediate the legacy of past land use, when …
Survival stories are emerging from the flash flooding and torrential downpours that wreaked havoc on the Sunshine Coast and Gympie region, with people and animals scrambling for higher ground, sewage spilling onto a beach, and pollution fears after a train derailment. "Wet weather overflows are highly diluted and are 99 per cent water," the service's Rhett Duncan said. "We're working …