A few hundred people went to last year’s Flourish festival in Biloela. Local families served homemade food from fold-out tables. Kids wore traditional dress in a fashion parade down the main street.
For many it was the sort of moment – a happy, homespun community gathering – where they most deeply felt the absence of one family. For four years, the wholesome joys of rural life have been dulled by the sense that this central Queensland town was not quite whole.
