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Ten years on: Baby Montannah’s rescue lifted spirits Warrant Officer Tony Young carries baby Montannah to drier land in Gatton in 2011. Picture: Jack Tran News by Leisa Scott Premium Content Subscriber only She's taller than her mum now, a long-limbed 11-year-old going through a growth spurt, but look into Montannah Creaser's blue eyes and you can still see the baby who brought us hope. At 13-months, Montannah's steady gaze into a camera's lens in the midst of chaos added to the power of one of the most iconic images of the rescue effort during ...

Ten years on: Baby Montannah’s rescue lifted spirits Warrant Officer Tony Young carries baby Montannah to drier land in Gatton in 2011. Picture: Jack Tran News by Leisa Scott Premium Content Subscriber only She's taller than her mum now, a long-limbed 11-year-old going through a growth spurt, but look into Montannah Creaser's blue eyes and you can still see the baby who brought us hope. At 13-months, Montannah's steady gaze into a camera's lens in the midst of chaos added to the power of one of the most iconic images of the rescue effort during ...

When former Jackie Trad stood up in April to announce the "first major element" of the Palaszczuk Government's worker's assistance package, the path through COVID looked dire. Treasury were forecasting 272,000 Queenslanders would be on the dole queue by June 30 - with a state unemployment rate of around 10 per cent. Queensland Health were planning for one million people to be infected and warned at least 30,000 would die if the virus wasn't contained. Former deputy premier and treasurer Jackie Trad. Picture: Jack Tran We had no idea how long we'd be working from home and people were los...

He's the bogeyman - the malevolent leprechaun giggling like a troll under Queensland's political bridges every time we march toward an election. And the Queensland Labor Party adores him, knowing full well how we all love a pantomime villain. The ALP walks ahead of us on the political pathways with growing confidence, occasionally turning back in a theatrical display of horror to warn a fearful electorate, in a voice filled with foreboding: "Don't risk a return to Campbell Newman!'' And the voters cheer wildly, returning Labor governments with increasing vigour. Yet here today, in his ma...