Our resources
View our growing list of resources generated from past community consultations, research on Brisbane floods, and useful tools for understanding and planning for impacts.
Let us know if you’d like to contribute a resource.
Kurilpa community
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Kurilpa Flooded Intersections Map
Know which intersection will flood at each level of the St Lucia river level gauge.
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Building on a floodplain: How did Brisbane's new apartments cope in the February 2022 floods?
A film published by Jonathan Sriranganathan on the floods of February/March 2022 showing its significant negative impact on inner-city Brisbane neighbourhoods
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The Westender's Brisbane Floods Column
Keep up to date with local journalism and opinion pieces related to flood impacts, climate, community and development in Kurilpa.
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A Flood of Suggestions
A summary by Helen Wallace from the flood response community consultation stall held on 5 June 2011. An initiative of the Gabba Ward Office working with the West End Community Recovery Committee and in conjunction with the West End State School fiesta.
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A Silver Lining: Community Development, Crisis and Belonging
A report by Fiona Caniglia and Amy Trotman exploring the role of community development in Queensland’s recovery from the January 2011 floods.
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Why 'Community Infrastructure' Needs Hard Funding: Case Study of Designing Flood Responses in West End 2011
A report by Mary Maher, Pam Bourke, Cr Helen Abrahams and Joe Hurley (West End Community House) on the ‘community infrastructure’ of community organisations, networks and community resources which provide the enabling conditions for communities to act in concert.
Disability & wellbeing
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Psychological First Aid for Flood Volunteers
Watch this 1 hour recorded webinar to learn simple ways to support the mental wellbeing of yourself and others before the next flood.
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Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness (P-CEP) Toolkit
Collaborating 4 Inclusion
A conversation guide used by people with disability to tailor emergency preparedness planning to their individual support needs.
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Free Flood Recovery Psychology Support
Change Futures, in partnership with the Brisbane South PHN, is delivering free psychology and counselling support to residents of Brisbane South who have been impacted by the floods.
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Get Ready Queensland
Steps and videos from the Queensland Government for people with disabilities or carers to help reduce the risk of danger during natural disasters.
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Community Trauma Toolkit
Emerging Minds’ Community Trauma Toolkit contains resources to help and support adults and children before, during and after a disaster or traumatic event. It will help you understand some of the impacts of disaster and how you can help lessen these impacts.
Children & families
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Birdie's Tree
Award winning storybooks, videos and resources created by the Queensland Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health (QCPIMH), to to help children and families grow through natural disasters and disruptive events.
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Resilient Kids Toolkit
Royal Far West’s free Resilient Kids Toolkit guide is filled with many easy-to-follow strategies for parents and activities for kids. It’s designed to help develop positive relationships, strengthen mental health and build resilience and self-awareness.
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Helping Hands: Disaster Resilience Tool Kit
The ABC’s Helping Hands is a disaster resilience curriculum planning tool kit for early childhood educators to help young children and their families prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies and disasters.
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What families can do to look after themselves following a flood
A podcast by Emerging Minds with Michelle Roberts about the impact floods can have on children and families, and practical ways in which parents and carers can support their children as the family recovers from these potentially devastating events.
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Emerging Minds online courses
Online courses developed for educators to support children and young people following a disaster. They offer a practical framework and tips, preparedness skills and knowledge that professionals can use in their daily practice and programs.
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Jackie French's Flood
Inspired by the Queensland floods, Flood is a moving and sensitive story of a natural disaster as seen through the honest eyes of a cattle dog that has been separated from his family.
History
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A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods
Margaret Cook (2023)
A River with a City Problem is a compelling history of floods in the Brisbane River catchment, especially those in 1893, 1974, 2011 and 2022. Extensively researched, it highlights the force of nature, the vagaries of politics and the power of community. With many river cities facing urban development challenges, historian Margaret Cook makes a convincing argument for what must change to prevent further tragedy.
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History of Brisbane River flooding
Seqwater and Margaret Cook (2022)
Living alongside the Brisbane River offers a great lifestyle to live, work and play, but it also means South East Queensland can be subject to flooding. Dr Margaret Cook takes us on a journey back in time looking at the history of Brisbane River flooding, starting with the first flood on record in 1841.
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Brisbane Breached: The Story of a Drought Defaulted Floodplain
David Topp (2024)
Brisbane Breached: The Story of a Drought Defaulted Floodplain delves into the intricate historical chronicles of Brisbane, meticulously exploring the city’s enduring struggle against the dual forces of severe flooding and prolonged droughts.
Climate adaptation
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Community experiences of the 2022 Australian floods
Natural Hazards Research Australia
This research heard the personal stories of people who were impacted or threatened by the floods between January and July 2022. Read the summary report and watch the webinar to learn more.
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Climate Ideas & Actions for Kurilpa Precinct: Summary Of Workshop Outcomes
John Mongard Landscape Architects (2020)
Our climate strategy focuses on resilient adaptation: an approach to climate adaptation that understands and respects the world views and the shared needs of our community and which intentionally designs and develops the urban setting to respond to our shared applications…
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The Cavalry is not Coming! Towards a Climate Resilient Kurilpa Community
Mary Maher (2019)
What will climate disruption mean for us in Kurilpa?
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Water Futures
James Davidson Architect (2017)
The Water Futures book is the culmination of over 5 years of work by many people – all experts in their own right – from many disciplines, professions and walks of life.
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The Green Space Strategy
John Mongard Landscape Architects
The Green Space Strategy has been organically developed by the Kurilpa community in tandem with local landscape architects. The Strategy is a summary of the best ideas and research undertaken and forms a live document which the local community can harness to achieve their desired futures.
Studies & readings
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Why was Brisbane’s 2022 flood different?
Margaret Cook (2023)
Only 11 years on from the devastating 2011 flood, Brisbane was again inundated, but this time it was different…
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Want to help people affected by floods? Here’s what to do – and what not to
Nicole George (2022)
Lismore and Brisbane’s catastrophic flood emergency has come only a short time after the last flooding disaster. We know from previous floods that as soon as the water recedes, flood-affected areas will be inundated with well-meaning volunteers wanting to help with the clean-up…
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Risk communication and risk perception: lessons from the 2011 floods in Brisbane, Australia
Mark Kammerbauer and John Minnery (2018)
Risk communication and risk perception are critical factors in disaster management. Governments at all levels play a part in communicating risk, whereas the perception of risk entails active roles by community participants, including potential and actual victims of disasters. This paper discusses these matters in relation to the floods in Brisbane, Australia, in 2011…
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“It Will Never Happen Again”: The Myth of Flood Immunity in Brisbane
Margaret Cook (2018)
Although scholarship shows how collective memory aids community resilience to hazards, sociopolitical forces erode this transformative potential. A study of Brisbane River floods highlights the entanglement of memory with a myth of flood immunity…
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'It was a town of friendship and mud': 'Flood talk', community, and resilience
Nicole George (2013)
This article combines autoethnographic and ethnographic methods to examine the relationship between community and disaster resilience. My analysis draws from personal experience of flood recovery in a South Brisbane suburb in 2011-2012…