Article 6HAVG ‘This community’s beautiful’: Machans Beach residents band together after devastating floods

‘This community’s beautiful’: Machans Beach residents band together after devastating floods

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Andrew Messenger
from World news | The Guardian on (#6HAVG)

It took a day for the authorities to get access after the flooding, but a mud-soaked army of volunteers had already emerged

Judy Kitching fell into coordinating an evacuation centre by accident.

She runs the Machans Beach community hall, one of the very few public facilities in the small beachside town on the outskirts of Cairns.

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