Australians 'True Blue' in aftermath of flooding

Fair dinkum.

In Australia that means steadfast, to stay the course. That's the Australian spirit following the country's most devastating flood in decades.

Surging floodwaters from the Brisbane River inundated sections of the city of more than two million citizens. The flooding affected thousands and caused millions in damages, and few citizens were left unscathed either physically or emotionally. But in the traditional Aussie spirit, they remained "fair dinkum."

Topcon's prominent presence in Brisbane - Topcon's Technology Center, Position Partners (country's largest survey and construction machine control equipment dealer, and Automated Positioning Systems (APS), the country's leading designers and builders of GPS systems for mining systems which use Topcon hardware - not only witnessed the floods firsthand but some were victims of it. (For complete stories, download PDF.)