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Residents are being reassured that controlled releases from Wivenhoe Dam will not cause the Brisbane River to rise above Monday’s 3.85 metre peak when thousands of homes flooded.
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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has put up a strong defence of her government’s handling of southeast Queensland’s deadly flood emergency, insisting the deluge had no precedent and that “I can’t control Mother Nature”.
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Queensland’s accounting watchdog has slammed the state’s water authorities for lax security of their information systems, saying they are leaving themselves vulnerable to fraud and other errors.
Victims of Queensland’s 2011 floods say they cannot fathom how a dam operator has won an appeal that could deny them $440 million in compensation.
Nearly a week of torrential rain has replenished south-east Queensland’s water supply by just three per cent and the region’s largest storage – Wivenhoe Dam – remains a little over one-third full.
South-east Queensland residents are using less water than they were 12 months ago but still face a return to water restrictions if the region’s major dams do not get substantial rain in their catchments soon.
