This time last year, north-west Queensland faced the devastating aftermath of unprecedented monsoonal rain and more the 664,000 head of stock lost.
Lindsay and Sally Allan have been at 'Longford Station' near Cloncurry for over 30 years and never expected floodwater to threaten the station homestead.Mr Allan said family and some friends came from Brisbane, along with charity groups, to help them in the clean-up.
With losses of more than 400 head of cattle due to hypothermia and pneumonia, Mr Allan said it was hard to say what he could have done differently to save stock. "If it kept coming until around about the end of March or even into April, that would be one of the best seasons that we've had for fifteen years, I'd say," Mr Allen said.
"It might be that [the cattle are] not about, but Australia's a pretty big paddock and we'll find them somewhere," he said.Meanwhile, young Winton couple Tom and Belinda McLeish had taken a bullish approach to rebuilding their herd numbers and were now back to the numbers they had before the disaster.
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