A report into last year’s devastating floods has found that dam engineers breached their operating manual by delaying the increase of water releases.

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.

Pounding rains on Thursday flooded homes and isolated towns in eastern Australia that were still struggling to clean up after a cyclone last month.

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.

Australia’s biggest cyclone in a century shattered entire towns after striking the coast and churning across the vast country on Thursday.

Australia, Brazil, Thailand, the Philippines, South Africa … is there a pattern to the floods that seem to be drowning half the world?

Australian medical officials braced on Thursday for rampant disease in the country’s swamped north-east.

Australia’s third-largest city, Brisbane, was turned into a "war zone" on Thursday with whole suburbs under water.

Australia’s third-biggest city, Brisbane, was besieged on Wednesday by once-in-a-century floods.

Thousands of people were urged to leave the outskirts of Brisbane — Australia’s third-largest city — on Tuesday, as flood waters raced eastwards.

Residents in Australia’s third largest city, Brisbane, sandbagged their homes against rising waters on Monday as torrential rain worsened floods.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard pledged financial support for Australia’s flood-hit north-east on Saturday during a tour.