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From paradise to hell and back: why leaving isn’t an option for some flood-hit north Queenslanders
Tamika Tilbrooke emerges from a diner by the side of the Bruce Highway beneath a pair of sodden and forlorn mango trees holding a litre of Coca-Cola and two plastic cups. One is for her husband, Bobby, still working hard on their Bluewater home, a few …