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    David Topp, Brisbane Breached: The Story of a Drought Defaulted Floodplain

    Geoff Keating

    University of Southern Queensland

    geoff.keating@unisq.edu.au

    https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1860-8503

    Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies 5 (September 2025): 180-181, https://doi.org/10.52230/BKBC6514

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