In the days before roads and railway to Brisbane, the Fitzroy River provided all transport and communications for much of Central Queensland through the port of Rockhampton.

Damage from Cyclone Althea at 29 & 31 Somer Street, Hyde Park, Townsville, 24 December 1971. Photographs from inside and outside the houses. The coke-stove chimney had blown in at 31 Somer Street. Slides by Lynne Clancy, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Lynne Clancy and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

A house being moved by punt from Bulimba in Brisbane to Bishop Island, 1934. Courier Mail, 2 May 1934. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

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... and his ghost be heard as you pass by that billabong …

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