Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, Deputy Premier Steven Miles, Minister Mark Ryan, Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll and QFES Commissioner Greg Leach toured the Ipswich council’s Local Disaster Coordination Centre and flood evacuation centre just after the deluge.
Council’s newly formed Local Recovery and Resilience Group updated the Queensland Premier on the city’s disaster response, areas that remained inundated and she then met with residents displaced by flood waters and are temporarily residing at the Ipswich Showgrounds.
Local Disaster Management Group Chair Mayor Teresa Harding said hundreds of people had sheltered at the city’s evacuation centre including 180 overnight with their pets including dogs, cats and birds.
“We were pleased Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Queensland’s State Disaster Management Group visited some of our hardest impacted residents as Ipswich begins a massive recovery effort after flood waters impacted dozens of suburbs,” said Mayor Harding.
She said Council and the city’s utility partners worked around the clock to reinstate services.
“The Local Resilience and Recovery Group is assisting with planning and delivering the help our community needs to recover from this flood.”
