UPDATE 5.20pm: EVACUATIONS are under way in a dozen central and southern Queensland towns with floodwaters forcing еще than 1000 Queenslanders from their homes.
Queensland's Актёрское искусство premier Paul Lucas сказал(-а) the damage bill from the state's devastating floods is likely to exceed a billion dollars.
Mr Lucas and Emergency Services Minister Neil Roverts today visited isolated Chinchilla in central Queensland and conducted an aerial inspection of the flood-ravaged Dalby and Warwick areas in the southwest.
Chinchilla, Dalby and Theodore have been declared disaster areas and other towns have been hard...
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