The floods: how did we let this happen again?

15,000 homes in Brisbane and surrounding areas were inundated with floodwater this week, after a “rain bomb” hit the region. The clean-up has begun and locals are starting to ask themselves, ‘how did this happen?’. The region was smashed by floods in 2011, and authorities pledged to learn lessons from the mistakes made just over a decade ago.

But, as Beck Haining, a Brisbane resident whose home was flooded tells us, many didn’t get a warning until their house was already underwater. And News Ltd’s columnist Peter Gleeson, says it’s not a good look, particularly with the Olympics on the horizon.

So in this episode of the Briefing, you’ll hear Beck’s incredible story….of going to bed reassured their home was safe, to wake up to a man drowning in the street behind her house.

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