Amanda Gearing

Guest blogger: Greer Townshend - 2022 Mittelheuser Scholar in Residence Emotions, like flowers, usually appear in a cluster. Fear, for example, can be accompanied by hope, panic, dread, worry, anxiety, paranoia and more.[1] It can morph into phobias…

Check out this great listen on Audible.com.au. What really happened in the 2011 flash flood disaster in Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley? Learn how to prepare yourself and your family to survive a natural disaster. Plus, hear directly from the…

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Tomorrow will mark the one year anniversary of the devastating floods that hit Queensland's Lockyer Valley and Toowoomba and starting today, we'll begin a series of interviews with survivors of those floods on the 10th of January last year. In…

Today marks the one year anniversary of the devastating floods that hit Queensland. This is the second in our series of survival from the Toowoomba and Lockyer Valley floods on the 10th of January 2011. Today, Queensland Fire and Rescue officer Peter…

When Susannah Birch was two years old her mother cut her throat, in a ritual sacrifice, Susannah was very lucky to survive. This was the first of her mother’s psychotic episodes as she enacted a passage from The Old Testament. Susannah remembered…

More than 1,000 Australians die unnecessarily in hospital each year due to avoidable failures by surgeons, according to experts calling for a senate inquiry. Graham Beaumont, PhD, and Dr John North are both long-term members of audit committees that…

Australia’s first laws to make coercive control a crime must be expanded to include rape in relationships as well as stalking and other forms of violence, according to the international expert who coined the term. Prof Evan Stark and his wife, Anne,…

Queensland is leading Australia through a cultural and legal transformation to criminalise coercive control, a pattern of behaviours that is highly correlated with the risk of domestic harm and homicide. The state’s premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk,…

In 2011, Frank King was attempting to move his car to higher ground when he was swept away by a raging torrent of water rushing through Grantham in south-east Queensland. King, then 66, managed to grab a tree and held on for 90 desperate minutes as…

Lloyd and Jean Warr, who survived flash flooding in 2011, have narrowly escaped with their lives once again after being rescued from Helidon in Queensland’s Lockyer Valley. Terrifying memories of the disaster a decade ago were reawakened this week…

The death of Hannah Clarke and her three young children on in February 2020 on a footpath in Camp Hill in Brisbane opened our collective eyes to the devastating failures of authorities to protect victims of domestic abuse from being murdered. Over…

Book Description This book makes the case for the enormous potential embodied in investigative journalism if reporters collaborate in the digital sphere and engage with emerging techniques and technologies. Bringing together personal narratives from…

The high court has refused a victim of child sexual abuse leave to appeal in his bid to reopen a compensation claim against Brisbane grammar school. The victim, codenamed TRG, wanted the school to set aside a deed of release to allow him to…

A victim of the prolific paedophile Kevin Lynch at Brisbane Grammar school is taking his case to the high court in a push to secure what advocates say is a fairer compensation deal for the abuse he suffered as a boy. The decision could open the way…

The little Anglican boarding school of St Barnabas, in the mountain town of Ravenshoe, north Queensland, was where Robert Waddington built his reputation as an educationalist. He was headmaster there from 1961-70, but a growing number of former…

The parents of Hannah Clarke have welcomed moves to criminalise coercive control in Queensland as they approach the first anniversary of their daughter’s murder by her husband. The Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, announced the formation of…

Widespread flooding amongst houses in the Ipswich region, Queensland, 2011. Photographer: Dean Saffron. From Dean Saffron Queensland Flood photographs 2011. State Library of Queensland. Image number 28001-0001-0043 This year marks 10 years since the…

Coercive control: Hannah Clarke’s parents on the abuse that preceded their daughter’s murder The murder of Hannah Clarke and her three children by her former partner in February provoked widespread soul-searching about the lives lost to domestic…

Their learning curve in 2020 has been steep and brutal. Now the parents of Hannah Clarke, murdered with her three children, want to raise awareness Full Story podcast: Hannah Clarke’s parents on the abuse that preceded their daughter’s murder Grief’s…