Queensland floods: 50 years on, the myth of Wivenhoe Dam lingers : vimarsana.com

At the opening of the dam in 1985, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen declared he doubted if a flood on the scale of 1974 could occur again. Newspapers propagated the myth.

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