Australia floods report reveals engineers' laxity
A report into last year's devastating floods has found that dam engineers breached their operating manual by delaying the increase of water releases.
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Australian towns evacuated amid flooding fears
Flood waters are rising in parts of Queensland but residents have been thrown a lifeline with news that the levee on a swollen river might hold.
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Floods swamp cyclone-hit areas of Australia
Pounding rains on Thursday flooded homes and isolated towns in eastern Australia that were still struggling to clean up after a cyclone last month.
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Flood disaster digs deep in Aussie psyche
The tiny town of Grantham bore the full force of the Queensland floods last month, with homes swept away and children torn from their parents' arms.
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Australia reels from once-in-a-century cyclone
Australia's biggest cyclone in a century shattered entire towns after striking the coast and churning across the vast country on Thursday.
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Blame it all on La Niña
Australia, Brazil, Thailand, the Philippines, South Africa ... is there a pattern to the floods that seem to be drowning half the world?
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Australia steels for disease surge after floods
Australian medical officials braced on Thursday for rampant disease in the country's swamped north-east.
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'Unbearable agony' in flood-ravaged Brisbane
Australia's third-largest city, Brisbane, was turned into a "war zone" on Thursday with whole suburbs under water.
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Brisbane besieged by once-in-a-century floods
Australia's third-biggest city, Brisbane, was besieged on Wednesday by once-in-a-century floods.
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Deadly Australian floods spark evacuations in Brisbane
Thousands of people were urged to leave the outskirts of Brisbane -- Australia's third-largest city -- on Tuesday, as flood waters raced eastwards.
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