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| UpdatedWorst disasters in history, emergency response, cloud formations and total fire bans. So show us what you know about weather and emergencies in Australia. Good luck!
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, weather, cyclone, rainfall, storm-event, bushfire, cyclones, earthquake, fires, floods, storm-disaster, australia, act, nsw, nt, qld, sa, tas, vic, wa
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Western Australia has had its wettest summer on record and fewer hot days than usual as tropical weather headed south.
Topics: weather, floods, rainfall, human-interest, perth-6000
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A big wet season has cut road access to many communities in the Northern Territory. Ngukurr residents in Arnhem Land need to travel by boat up the Roper River to get in and out of their community. Read more
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, floods, transport, katherine-0850
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Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, water, water-supply, water-management, reid-2612, campbell-2612, act, australia
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| UpdatedSome $140 million will be spent on flood mitigation in Adelaide's inner-south and south-west over the next 20 years after an agreement was met between the State Government and five local councils.
Topics: floods, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, local-government, unley-5061, adelaide-5000, mitcham-5062, burnside-5066, sa
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| UpdatedFlood-affected farmers in the south of Western Australia say the State Government has been too slow in reacting to their plight, adding there is a lack of comprehension around the scale of the damage.
Topics: floods, rural, government-and-politics, ravensthorpe-6346
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Residents in Queensland's Gulf country are criticising the State Government's flooded road closure policy, and are calling for a permit system.
Topics: floods, state-parliament, activism-and-lobbying, food-and-cooking, community-and-society, normanton-4890, qld, townsville-4810, croydon-4871
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Normanton butcher Calvin Gallagher says a 'one size fits all' policy to close state-operated roads at 300mm is hurting local businesses.
Topics: road-transport, floods
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Topics: road-transport, road, floods, normanton-4890
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Topics: weather, floods, rainfall, rail-transport, inverell-2360, tamworth-2340, moree-2400, armidale-2350, werris-creek-2341, quirindi-2343, kootingal-2352
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| UpdatedThe remote community of Borroloola is divided after a bridge partly collapses, and locals fear it will cause social and economic stress for stranded residents.
Topics: floods, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, cyclone, local-government, borroloola-0854
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When it's dry farmers can graze cattle and grow crops on the lake bed. But when it's full Lake Cowal is home to thousands of birds. Read more
Topics: birds, wetlands, agricultural-crops, floods, west-wyalong-2671
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At least 225 residents are rescued from a San Jose neighbourhood inundated by floodwaters, after a series of storms swelled waterways and left about half of California under flood, wind and snow advisories.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, floods, united-states
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Perth's river systems are brimming with sediment and nutrients, as well as potentially harmful bacteria.
Topics: environmental-health, environmental-management, rivers, weather, rainfall, floods, perth-6000
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Topics: emergency-incidents, floods, lower-hawkesbury-2775
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Emergency services are frustrated by people making bad decisions when faced with floodwater.
Topics: emergency-planning, floods, livestock-welfare, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedMain Roads says it is confident the South Coast Highway between Ravensthorpe and Esperance and will be opened to traffic by early next week.
Topics: floods, ravensthorpe-6346, esperance-6450, wa, australia
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| UpdatedAerial food drops and the evacuation of low-lying houses are underway as the Kimberley's Fitzroy River approaches major flooding levels.
Topics: floods, rainfall, fitzroy-crossing-6765
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Residents in the south west town of Nannup are on alert, as emergency services warn the Blackwood River is expected to peak above five metres on Thursday evening.
Topics: floods, nannup-6275, bridgetown-6255
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WA's peak road transport industry body says supply routes are crumbling after years of neglect, with recent flooding events exacerbating the issue.
Topics: road-transport, floods, storm-disaster, storm-event, ravensthorpe-6346, jerdacuttup-6346, albany-6330, kalgoorlie-6430, broome-6725, geraldton-6530, esperance-6450, halls-creek-6770, bunbury-6230
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| UpdatedWestern Australia's South West braces for flooding as rivers continue to swell following record rainfall in the state, with storms claiming two lives on the weekend.
Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, weather, bunbury-6230, wa
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| UpdatedThere has been major flooding at CBH's grain receival site at Borden, north of Albany in Western Australia's Great Southern.
Topics: floods, grain, borden-6338, albany-6330