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Flooding at Tenham Station, a beef and sheep enterprise amid the channel country in south-west Queensland.

The slow-moving inland sea triggered by a year’s worth of rain in just a few days

Record rains following in the wake of Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred have caused flooding in parts of Queensland and NSW.

  • Nick O'Malley and Courtney Kruk

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A car was underwater on the Menangle Bridge on Friday.

Elderly driver missing after being swept away in floodwaters

Emergency services are searching for the man, who was towing a caravan while crossing a flooded causeway.

  • Courtney Kruk and Callum Godde
Alfred’s path

The unpredictable path that kept millions on their toes

How can you know exactly where and when a cyclone will hit land, and where the worst damage will be felt? Sometimes, it’s only once it’s all over.

  • Rosanna Ryan and The Visual Stories Team
The Herbert River, pictured here in 2021, is prone to flooding after heavy rain.

Disaster-weary town on alert again as river breaks banks

Triple-digit rainfall totals have battered the region for days, just a month after it experienced a flood emergency that killed two people.

  • Savannah Meacham
Illustration by Simon Letch

The outlook for house insurance is much worse than we’re being told

Insurance companies, the banks and the government know what’s coming, but they don’t want to talk about it before it happens, mainly because they don’t know what to do about it.

  • Ross Gittins
The new pavilion is designed for flood resilience.

Uninsurable Brisbane sports club plans life above flood line

A flood-prone inner-city sports club has submitted plans for a new clubhouse after insurance companies refused to cover the community facility.

  • Cameron Atfield
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How premiums for home insurance have climbed since 2020, by Sydney LGA.

The maps that reveal how climate disasters are driving up insurance premiums in Sydney

The accelerating risk of climate disasters including floods, bushfires and storms means Sydneysiders in some parts of the city are paying over three times more for home insurance than others.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The Queensland government and Gold Coast council will work to restore beaches along the tourist strip.

‘Open for business’: Queensland pitches to tourists in wake of cyclone

“Our message to the rest of Australia and to the world is that Queensland remains open for business,” said Tourism Minister Andrew Powell.

  • Savannah Meacham and Rachael Ward
Kedron Brook on Sunday morning near Gordon Park in Brisbane.

Queensland floods as it happened: Lockyer Valley, Ipswich inundated as effects of ex-tropical cyclone Alfred linger

For today’s updates in Brisbane and surrounds as they come to hand, follow us here.

  • Ben Bissett
Tyson says he and his mother will return to living in their car if they are evicted from the Pine Street property they are living in.

On a flood-ravaged Lismore street, ‘squatters’ take on premier

With nowhere to go, these people turned a street of condemned government-owned homes into a community. Now Chris Minns has vowed to demolish the buildings.

  • Riley Walter

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