Anna Bligh: The moment I thought I failed

History tells another story.History shows that on January 12, 2011, the then Queensland premier came through magnificently, delivering what is now acknowledged as one of the more famous speeches by a 21st Century Australian politician.

The catastrophe of the Lockyer Valley flood of two days before, which centred on the tiny town of Grantham and which claimed a dozen lives alone, was just sinking in in the already shell shocked state of Queensland.As much of the Ipswich…



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