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How yarn bombing — plus coffee and cake — helped this small town get past fire, drought, floods and isolation

The southern Queensland town of Mungindi has been dealt its fair share of blows over the past few years.

Chief among them a devastating fire, drought, pandemic isolation, not to mention numerous floods.

While its population of fewer than 1,000 people may be small, this inland town clutching the New South Wales border is big on bush spirit — and its locals are currently bringing some colour and much-needed joy to their community in a novel way.

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