Queensland Floods Worst in Their History

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QUEENSLAND'S flood toll continues to rise - with 18 people now confirmed dead - as federal Treasurer Wayne Swan predicted the economic cost of the disaster will be the highest in Australia's history…

…Mr Swan urged Australians to give to the appeal ''because in economic terms the scale of this disaster is probably the largest in Australia's history''.

Ms Bligh said 500,000 square kilometres of the state, including 86 towns and cities, had been affected and that 2 million people were living in areas declared disaster zones.
Governments would have to pay billions of dollars to replace destroyed infrastructure, she said….

See:
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/weather/qld-floods-disaster-worst-in-history-20110116-19sja.html


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