FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

6 still photographs of Brisbane city in flood during different time periods from first floods in 1893. Titles.

Archival news footage of floods in Brisbane in 1974, water gushing along streets, people in row boats, houses submerged, men wading through ankle deep water at shopping centre,

Woman walking into a weatherboard building, community hall, sign at front for Goodna Rugby League Bingo and Flood Relief Centre. VS of social worker counselling woman seeking welfare aid. Interview with Anne Quinnell of the Queensland Disaster Welfare Committee about the lack of organisational structure to support a disaster welfare program.

Pan from woman at the sink of an untidy kitchen to man sitting in chair whittling next to an unmade bed. Woman at a sewing machine next to a child lying in a cot. Interview with older couple about the difficulties they experienced with the floods. Black cat walking along timber beams in roof. MS of small child in cot and mother giving her a bottle. Various people give their personal accounts of the floods. Anne Quinnell of the Queensland Disaster Welfare Committee about the shock residents experienced.

VS in Brisbane suburban area. Pan from river to remains of a house washed away in the floods. Sign requesting people to stay off the land. Interview with social worker, Illtyd Loveluck, describes the demographics of Ipswich. Interview with couple, man holding small child , while they inspect their flood damaged land and destroyed house. MS of woman explaining she has to borrow money to replace her home. Interview with young couple about financing the loss of their home. Interview with Anne Quinnell of the Queensland Disaster Welfare Committee about the disadvantage suffered by the victims of the floods.

Social worker, Illtyd Loveluck, suggests that the Government should cover the mortgages of the victims of the floods so these people can re- establish their lives. WS of meeting of flood victims and interview with couple about the effect of the disaster on their personal lives.

Flood relief action committee in Jindalee meets for 25th time in four months. Minutes read, pan around the table of committee members. Interview with couple about Government economic assistance given after the floods covering personal loss but not damage to the house because of an assets test. Anne Quinnell of the Queensland Disaster Welfare Committee discusses the response to the floods in Jindalee.

Pan across people attending flood victim relief meeting at Ipswich. Comments about problems in receiving Government assistance for the victims. VS of women in voluntary organisation called Housewives Help visiting homes of victims of flood. Interview with Dorothy Wallace of Housewives Help. Dorothy Wallace visits mother and baby living in a caravan in the front yard of flood damaged house and various other victims. VS of damaged house interiors. Various people discuss slow response to repairing the damage and lack of available tradesmen.

Anne Quinnell of the Queensland Disaster Welfare Committee describes the sense of community which arises after disaster. Couple talk about having to start again after floods destroyed their home. CU of woman saying she will survive somehow.