Month: February 2013
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The Waters of Milton
I’ve expressed previously my enthusiasm for old maps. The older they are, the more they tend to reveal about the original landscape. Until recently, the oldest map that I had found of the Milton area dated back to 1859. That map (‘Plan of Portions 203 to 257 in the Environs of Brisbane, Parish of Enoggera,…
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Are we learning yet?
A story in the Brisbane Times this morning, titled Buyers less fearful of flood zones, made me a little bit mad. Though I try not to buy into the blame game around the 2011 flood, I suspect that the real estate industry is partly responsible for the false sense of security that set in after…