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January 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda On the eve of the anniversary of the fatal floods in southern Queensland, Toowoomba residents paused to reflect on the tragedy and the progress made since the disaster.
Premier Anna Bligh unveiled a memorial in the CBD of the city on Monday night during a service designed, as mayor Peter Taylor says, “to be a night of reflection.”
The mayor says the last year has been full of rebuilding and planning.
“We’ve got three years of normal works to do to rebuild the whole region. $25 million worth of flood works have been done but we can’t do it all in one go.”
“I know people want it done quickly. We did the emergency stuff quickly. Now we settle down and work out the scale of it, do the designs of bridges and roads, and make sure we’ve got funding.”
“The creeks in Toowoomba themselves have had some $20 million spent on them in the last period of time, there’s ongoing works to do. The next round of works on East and West Creeks are in the order of $23 million. That’s a lot of money. We’ve been trying to get funding for that. We can put some of the ratepayers money, but we can’t put $23 million in one go. We have a program and a schedule of works with timelines to deliver those improvements.”
“Rest easy, already the work that is in place has made a significant difference. Dent St used to regularly flood with a storm, it now doesn’t. We’ve got longer term plans to keep on making the improvements. But I don’t want to give people the view we are building for that one-in-360-years, or one-thousand years event. No organisation could ever build infrastructure for that. You’d have to move the city. I don’t believe we’re going to move the city, or Oakey or Yarraman. However, we do the best we can as we improve the roads and bridges. We’ve got a way to go, but we have made good improvements.”
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