Flood disasters, miracle survivals: News headlines that rocked Toowoomba in 2010

It’s hard to imagine a time before Covid-19, Ukrainian war and the Black Lives Matter movement, so we’ve taken a trip down memory lane. Here’s what was making headlines in 2010.

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It’s hard to imagine a time before Covid-19, Ukrainian war and the Black Lives Matter movement, so The Chronicle has taken a trip down memory lane to see what was making the headlines in 2010.

Across the pond, tech giants Apple released their first iPad product in the U.S. on April 3.

Months prior in January, a magnitude earthquake hit Haiti and devastatingly killed an estimated 220,000 people, including more than 100 staff members of the United Nations.

Now known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton announced their engagement in November.

While closer to home, the state’s most widespread flooding disaster started in December and continued into the first month of the following year, impacting around 200,000 Queenslanders.

On June 24, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd resigned as the nation’s leader after he lost internal support from the Labor Party.

Julia Gillard then made history, when she was the country’s first female to be elected Prime Minister.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange began releasing classified cables that had been sent to the U.S. State Department by 274 of its consulates, embassies, and diplomatic missions.

In sport, the NRL discovered the Melbourne Storm was in major breach of the salary cap and had been over a five-year period.

As a result of the breach, the NRL stripped the club of all honours achieved as a team between 2006 and 2010.

And locally, a state school was placed into lockdown after a child became violent and threatened their peers in March.

A man was praised for his quick-thinking and bravery after rescuing his next door neighbours from a house fire in Newtown.

Then in November the region’s church leaders condemned the return of topless waitresses at the Fiveways Hotel.

A Kingsthorpe farmer also tragically lost his life when two 300kg bales of hay fell from a truck and crushed him.

And cold-case detectives investigating the murder mystery of Toowoomba’s Annette Mason, charged a woman with perjury.

Here are just some of the front pages that rocked Toowoomba in 2010.