Floods

Two years after major flooding in NSW, an auditor-generals's report outlines how hundreds of survivors are still waiting to move into temporary accommodation.

Producers were forced to move cattle to higher ground during recent flooding.

Floodwater engulfed north-west Queensland in January and February with many properties losing fences.

The 2022 Brisbane floods remains the most costly weather event in Australian history, and some residents are still suffering: this time at the hands of their insurers.

WA's emergency services are facing a challenging period, with Ex-Tropical Cyclone Lincoln re-intensifying off WA, and a bushfire forcing the closure of the critical Eyre Highway.

Heavy rains and lightning strikes have flooded homes, knocked out power and cut roads on Tasmania's east coast.

The Fairfield family have faced insurance issues in the wake of the 2011 and 2022 floods.

The Fairfield family has been facing issues with their insurance provider, years after their home was flooded.

The 2022 flood event was the costliest in Australia's history, with 244,000 insurance claims made — but almost two years on, more than 7,000 of those are outstanding.

Residents across regional Victoria say they're fed up with the ongoing wait to fix the state's pot-holed plagued roads, with dozens still unrepaired more than a year after heavy rain and floods.

Victorian motorists are urging governments to speed up road repairs after waiting more than a year for fixes to large potholes and other flood damage on major highways.

Floodwaters in Queensland’s remote channel country have reached Birdsville turning the outback into an oasis. The water is a lifeline in one of the driest parts of the state.

Repairs continue two months after the cyclone struck, but many remain displaced and some are questioning whether their communities should be rebuilt at all.

Two months after the flooding in far north Queensland, communities in isolated townships ask whether it is wise to rebuild in the same places.

Water is making its way through the channel country.

While record rain causes havoc in south-east Queensland, it revitalises a part of far west Queensland that rarely sees so much water.

A woman has died after her vehicle was swept away in floodwaters in north-west Queensland, as severe storms dump heavy rainfall in the state's south-east.

Communities from Port Roper to Burketown are being warned to prepare for severe weather as the Bureau of Meteorology forecasts a moderate chance of a tropical low developing into a cyclone over the region.

Recent floods have left the museum in disrepair, and there's fears it's might now slip into the history books itself.

Memories of a "frontier" town risk fading from the page in the damp wreckage of Timber Creek's Police Museum.

As wild weather pummels the country, Queensland farmers are exhausted after five years of droughts, fires, floods and cyclones. And it's pushing their coping abilities to the limit. 

Families, children and the elderly are being flown out of the Gulf of Carpentaria as a tropical low, with a 40 per cent chance of turning into a cyclone, risks putting properties under water. 

Communities from Port Roper to Burketown are being warned to prepare for severe weather as the Bureau of Meteorology forecasts a 40 per cent chance of a tropical low developing into a cyclone over the region.

A monsoon has redeveloped over the Top End, dumping more than 150mm of rainfall on some Darwin suburbs.

Flood cameras show water from the Nicholson River rising over several days near Tirranna Springs Roadhouse at Gregory, inland from Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria.