There is no lie that North Queensland has been hammered with rain over the past week with widespread flooding, rivers at record highs and it looks like there is much more on the way. Last week on the program, we had a number of listeners texting in about the Bradfield Scheme - a long-debated plan to capture floodwaters and redirect them inland to drought-proof Australia.

Member for Traeger, Rob Katter, joins Burty to discuss the scheme and why it's just "common sense".