The Hinchinbrook electorate has just experienced one of the toughest periods in recent history. The 2025 flood and monsoonal event devastated our region, cutting off entire communities, flooding and destroying homes and businesses, and leaving behind a massive clean-up effort.
But if there's one thing I know about the people of Hinchinbrook, it’s that we will get through this together and rebuild better than we were before.
On Saturday, access was finally restored into the Lower Herbert, allowing us to see firsthand the destruction left behind. It was a privilege to take Premier David Crisafulli into some of the hardest-hit areas. Seeing the devastation up close only reinforced the urgent need to ensure that our community receives the support it deserves.
We also met with Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to tour some local businesses in Ingham and discuss the next phase of the recovery process. Clearing the debris and restoring power is only the first stage, we now start to move on to the betterment projects to rebuild our region to be stronger and more resilient than before.
This week, I’ve had to leave Ingham to attend the first parliamentary sitting week of the year. I will be using my time this week to meet with key Ministers to ensure that the plan for Hinchinbrook’s recovery is thorough and extensive. We need urgent action on things such as roads and flood mitigation projects, particularly the Bruce Highway.
We need to address the housing shortage and the loss we are going to see in the primary production and small business spaces. Importantly as well, many of our local sporting clubs and community groups have lost everything, and we need to ensure they have all the help they can get to start running again.
We can’t flood-proof the Bruce Highway or our beautiful communities here in Hinchinbrook, but we can certainly minimise the impact of major flooding events through smart planning, investment and comprehensive recovery strategies.
The road to recovery will be long, but together we will navigate our way. We’ve done it before, and we’ll do it again.
Nick Dametto MP
Member for Hinchinbrook
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