Ithaca Creek News Today

Featuring more than 50 of his works, Love in Life & Art is a homage to Robinson and his late wife Shirley’s ‘exceptional union’ and the role she played in his art

As the floodwaters rose in Southeast Queensland last week, my phone buzzed with texts from friends. We compared this event with the last catastrophic flood of 2011 and tried to calculate whether our homes would be affected this time. I live in Ipswich, not far from the now-flooded Bremer River.

As history shows, many natural and human factors determine how water will behave during a flood.