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I know there are a lot of these kinds of sites but I happened across the SlightlyWarped family photo page and had to share some gems. This is what the internet was made for.
The Australian Floods: a photo gallery
Xeni Jardin at 12:03 PM Thursday, Jan 13, 2011
Heavy equipment sits submerged in flood waters in an industrial area of Brisbane, Australia, on January 13, 2011. Flood water in Australia's third-biggest city peaked below feared catastrophic levels on Thursday but Brisbane and other devastated regions face years of rebuilding and even the threat of fresh floods in the weeks ahead.
(REUTERS/Tim Wimborne)More photographs below.
A snake crosses the Capricorn Highway which is under floodwaters 6km south of Rockhampton, January 3, 2011. Military aircraft flew supplies to an Australian town slowly disappearing beneath floodwaters on Monday, as record flooding in the country's northeast continues to cut coal exports and devastate wheat production.
(REUTERS/Daniel Munoz)
A tiger yard ornament is partially submerged in the front garden of a house at Depot Hill in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, January 5, 2011. Floodwaters eased in Australia's major coal mining region on Tuesday to allow some mines to slowly resume production, although most remain idle as devastating floods affect some 200,000 people and force towns to be evacuated. (REUTERS/Daniel Munoz)
Roofs of houses are visible above flood waters west of Brisbane January 13, 2011. (REUTERS/Tim Wimborne)
A flooding sign is seen partially submerged in floodwaters in Rockhampton, Queensland, January 4, 2011. (REUTERS/Daniel Munoz)
Sunlight descends over flooded waters near Rockhampton, Queensland, January 6, 2011. Australia's record floods are causing catastrophic damage to infrastructure in the state of Queensland and have forced 75 percent of its coal mines, which fuel Asia's steel mills, to grind to a halt, Queensland's premier said on Wednesday. (REUTERS/Daniel Munoz)
Farm crops are seen flooded near the town of Theodore in Queensland, Australia January 2, 2011. Large parts of Australia's coastal northeast were flooded on Sunday in a spreading environmental disaster as thousands of residents fled their homes to avoid the runoff from a Christmas deluge. (REUTERS/Daniel Munoz)
Workers of a hardware store start to clean up after being affected by flooded waters in Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia January 1, 2011. Flood water rose across Australia's northeast on Friday, covering an area bigger than France and Germany combined, inundating 22 towns and stranding 200,000 people, and closing one of the country's major sugar export ports. (REUTERS/Daniel Munoz)
A man drinks beer as he sits in the entrance to a flooded car repair workshop in Brisbane January 13, 2011. Flood water in Australia's third-biggest city peaked below feared catastrophic levels on Thursday but Brisbane and other devastated regions faced years of rebuilding as a fresh flood threat loomed with a cyclonic storm building off the coast. (REUTERS/Tim Wimborne)
A fish is seen on the Capricorn Highway, which is partially submerged under floodwaters, 6 km (3.7 miles) south of Rockhampton, January 3, 2011. (REUTERS/Daniel Munoz)
Every now and then the electronic heavens open up and a blessed heavenly gem descends down upon our church of the internet. All praises due.
Latika Bourke, the 2010 Australian Young Journalist of the Year, is joining the ABC team in Canberra’s Parliament House as Social Media Reporter.Social media is a rapidly expanding area of communication, and is playing a growing role in the reporting of politics. As well as acting as a source of instant breaking news, social media platforms provide new ways to communicate with new audiences and link to the rest of the ABC’s political reporting.
As a reporter with 2UE, Latika Bourke was named young journalist of the year for her coverage of the Liberal leadership coverage, and her use of social media was key to this.
The new role will be attached to the ABC’s existing award-winning radio news and current affairs team, and will be part of a range of measures designed to explore how social media can be used to enhance and extend the ABC’s coverage of national politics.
‘I am delighted to welcome Latika to our Canberra team’ says Director of News, Kate Torney. ‘The ABC has a strong tradition of embracing and exploring new ways of communicating with our audience across a range of new and emerging platforms. This latest appointment continues that tradition’.
Latika will take up her new role next year.
Changing of the guard ... the English press have declared a new Ashes order. Source: William West / AFP
The British press have declared a "new Ashes order" is at hand, and spoken of the chaos in Australia's camp, after England's crushing victory at Adelaide Oval.
BBC
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew was full of praise for England's performance, describing it as one of "the greatest victories I have seen overseas".
However, most of Agnew's piece was devoted to Australia, whom he said were were in "complete disarray".
"Australia's chairman of selectors, Andrew Hilditch, is under immense pressure," Agnew wrote.
"It seems they have no long-term plans, judging by their depleted reserves of talent, and the Australian media want answers.
"This saga will run and run."
Agnew also dismissed the threat of Phil Hughes's impending selection for the third Test, and laughed off suggestions that Shane Warne was on the verge of a comeback.
"(Hughes) is a high-risk player at the top of the innings and England won't to be scared of him because they have successfully devised plans to get him out," he wrote.
"Warne is not going to be playing in this series. Those who want him in the team need to face up to reality."
The Guardian
Guardian columnist Vic Marks foresaw a bleak future for Australia, declaring "any side who concede 1137 runs while taking six wickets have fundamental problems".
Mike Selvey preferred to focus on England's performance, which he said "bordered on flawless".
"Without equivocation, this was the most complete performance by an England team in the memory of those who witnessed it," Selvey wrote.
"From first over to last, they dominated proceedings, first with ball and in the field, and then with bat."
The Daily Mail
Lawrence Booth focused on the changing of the guard in Ashes cricket, and talked of the "new Ashes order".
"The boot is on the other throat now, and you won’t find too much sympathy from the English," Booth wrote.
"The Adelaide Test - a defiant response to the trauma here four years ago - showcased the new Ashes order to perfection.
"The disparity has caught even the more optimistic Englishmen by surprise. Only three Australians - Hussey, Haddin and Shane Watson - have held their end up.
"England have not a single player out of form, and were even able to take Stuart Broad’s series-ending injury in their stride: after all, Chris Tremlett, the man expected to take his place in Perth, would stroll into this Australia team."
The Daily Telegraph
Steve James was amazed by the speed of Australia's collapse on day five, claiming they "folded like a pack of cards".
"To say Australia have problems is a huge understatement. Simon Katich looks like being out for the whole series ... Doherty cannot remain, nor possibly can North, Harris and Doug Bollinger. What a mess.
He also forecast a comfortable series win for the tourists.
"I wouldn’t play any of this (England) team against Victoria in Melbourne this week. Rest the lot of them. They deserve it.
"England are 1-0 up; Australia need to win two from three to reclaim the Ashes. Can’t see it, can you?"
The Daily Mirror
Former England captain Sir Ian Botham wrote of his surprise at the gulf between the two sides.
"I might have to start adjusting my Ashes predictions," he wrote.
"I thought England would win by two clear Tests, but if all the batsmen are in this kind of form with bowlers who are clearly on top of their game, how on earth are Australia going to stop them?"
Beefy's famous British bravado, which almost spilled over in the Adelaide Oval car park on Monday, was also obvious in his column.
"(Australia's) mistakes in the field speak volumes for where they are as a team right now and regardless of the huffing and puffing they are doing it is not blowing any English doors down.
"But as I've said throughout, I'm not too interested in what the Aussies are up to, that is their problem to worry about. Right now it is all about England and the juggernaut that keeps rolling on."
