The town hung out to dry

By Damien Murphy
Updated August 26 2017 - 1:18am, first published 1:14am

Memorials to the war dead are possibly the most enduring structures in rural Australia. But other regular devastations, flood, bushfire, cyclone and accident, are mordantly celebrated: the far north Queensland sugar town of Gordonvale, ground zero for the release of cane toads, today marks that catastrophe with a cane toad-themed playground in the main street.

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