A farmer in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria region says the station he spent his life building up is now a scene of 'complete devastation' after floods swept through the area.
As residents across the Gulf faced months of clean-up, Mr Camp said better processes were needed to ensure a flood event never again left this degree of devastation."Hope can be given by understanding the immediate needs of the communities but also by improvement.
"In the future, we need to be able to respond better to these events, take the pressure and pain away from these residents."Mr Camp called for compassion from the wider Australian community. "Those comments on social media suggesting residents somehow had this coming because we have chosen to live here: be kind," he said.
"When residents on the banks of the Brisbane River were being inundated by floods, we didn't make comments that were so ridiculous.There was not much to salvage at the Floraville homestead."When we do recover, come and visit us — inject some much needed cash into the community that will help us be more resilient," he said.
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