Singer highlights flooding heartache with new track

Recording artist Madeleine Chaplain may be based in Melbourne now, but she has drawn on her Cloncurry roots for new release ‘The Flood’. All proceeds of the song will go to Cloncurry-based charity Sisters of the North. Chaplain grew up on a cattle station north of Cloncurry, where her family was directly affected by the flooding in February that wiped out hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep in the region. “The bush will always be where I belong,” Chaplain said. “My family kept me informed as the devastation unf...