ABC Reporter, Siobhan Barry discusses the recent floods in Karumba and Normanton. Anne Kruger asks Siobhan for her first hand account about how the flood affected folk in Queensland's Gulf are coping.
In the world of high finance it is fair to say that agriculture is rarely regarded as glamour stock, 'all sausage no sizzle.' However with the slide in sharemarkets and talk of world-wide recession, returns from farming now do not look so bad after all. And while corporate investment is still only a relatively small part of Australian agriculture, there are signs that might be changing.