Amos Aikman

THE remnants of Queensland’s Cyclone Yasi continued to bring extreme weather to Australia.

THE NSW Hunter Valley was the scene of two tragedies yesterday when two died in a chopper crash and a firefighter was hit by a falling tree.

Jodie Minus and Amos Aikman

JULIAN Assange should be venerated alongside Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama, according to the Sydney Peace Foundation.

FOR the second time in five days, family and friends of three people killed in Queensland’s floods in the Lockyer Valley farewelled their dead.

THE policeman heading the search for bodies in the Lockyer Valley has declared the disaster zone the worst he has ever witnessed.

Amos Aikman and Mark Dodd

ANXIOUS residents of flood-affected northern NSW towns of Boggabilla and Toomelah are preparing to return home and survey the damage.

STRUGGLING prawn trawlers in one of NSW’s largest fisheries face losing up to 50 per cent of their income this year

SUGARCANE growers devastated by wet weather and flooding face losing up to 60 per cent of their annual income for the next three years.

TORRENTIAL rain across northern NSW yesterday left more than 4500 people isolated and many more bracing themselves for worse to come.

FORECASTERS are warning Brisbane residents to prepare for the city’s biggest flood since 1974.