In some ways, it seemed a pleasant, wet season morning in the remote Aboriginal community of Coen in tropical far north Queensland on Thursday – and Sara Watkins was preparing for a sausage sizzle. “It’s a day that you’d spend going fishing,” she said. Instead Watkins – who runs one of two grocery and fuel shops in town, and is also a mechanic – was busy pulling down signs, sandbagging doors, selling gas stoves and canned food and preparing to communicate via UHF radio. She and the few hundred residents of the Cape York town were hunkering down for a
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