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Mick McDonald stands with his fists at his hips, surveying the flooded yard of his neighbours’ in the Brisbane suburb of Milton. The day before he helped three young men haul their furniture up onto the roof of their shared Queenslander home. Today, as flood waters peak, the little house is submerged to the window sills.

When I experienced Dumpster Diving first-hand, my assumptions that the activity was financially motivated quickly dissipated and were replaced by thoughts of political protest/outrage.

Here is a selection of great stand-alone images from emerging photojournalists at QCA, Griffith University.

“The only breasts that we’re comfortable with seeing are breasts that are young and sexualised.” When Facebook censored images of a breast-feeding infant and a topless grandmother, but failed to censor equally explicit images of a wet t-shirt contest, Sexpo girls and other traditionally sexy images of women from Gemma-Rose Turnbull’s Facebook picture section, it [...]

There is perceived stability in Uganda. Located near Rwanda and Nigeria, it is strange that there is more peace there than its tumultuous neighbors. That is at least what it seems like to the many tourists that go to see the northern Gorillas or game parks.

Pavel Truhlar’s studio is small and cramped, filled with various body parts. Arms and legs stick out from cardboard boxes lining the shelves and floors and even the bathroom of the two-room apartment. Faceless heads lie in a cardboard box on the floor, waiting to be given life with the stroke of a paint brush. [...]

Thousands of living corpses hunger for human flesh and brains, dragging their lifeless limbs through city streets, covered in blood and gore. It looks like the scene from a horror movie, but these zombies are walking the streets of Brisbane City for the fourth annual Zombie Walk to raise funds for the brain foundation. A [...]

A lot of media coverage focused on high profile named and aged competitors, such as Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark in the sailing, 100-year-old Ruth Frith at the athletics and 98-year-old swimmer Margo Bates. One event that didn’t gain media attention was the Access sailing event in the protected waters of Iron Cove in Sydney [...]

Fresh new development has the Gold Coast’s Broadwater Parklands looking remarkable at any time of day. Although on Thursday evening, the 8th of October the parklands looked extra-special. From the Australia Fair shopping centre, which overlooks the Broadwater Parklands, the area, could have been mistaken for a sea of glowing jellyfish as the sky reflected [...]

Broken Head Nature Reserve has a beautiful and peaceful atmosphere. The remote bays are one of the last areas in New South Wales where the ocean is fringed with rainforest. This area is under threat of invasion by a weed called Bitou Bush.  Bush regeneration is helping to preserve Broken Head Nature reserve, by providing [...]