The Latest Breaking News from Flood

Authorities have ordered people in parts of northwest Tasmania to evacuate, with flooding rivers in the top half of the state to keep rising in coming days.

Residents in low-lying areas of Central Victoria have been told they are in danger and need to move to higher ground with major flooding expected.

The number of people affected by large-scale flooding in South Sudan has doubled to almost a million since September, the UN's emergency response agency has warned.

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With predictions of major flooding at Forbes, in the NSW central west, farmers have already lost their crops to heavy rainfall.

Floods destroyed at least 4m acres of farmland, and with large areas still under water, new crops cannot be sown

The report on the preparations for and response to the southeast Queensland floods has found the emergency alert system failed to warn some Brisbane residents.

Tasmanians are being urged to prepare for a major rain event bearing down on the island, with concerns that measures put in place after the 2016 floods are incomplete and a hard-hit town is still vulnerable.

Residents in Australia's southeast were warned on Wednesday to prepare for an intense weather system which could bring damaging winds and heavy rains over the next two days.

The overland water flows responsible for unexpectedly flooding thousands of homes in February this year has been added to a new flood map for Brisbane.

An independent review finds Brisbane City Council was one of the last to issue a warning through the national emergency alert system, but the Lord Mayor says residents had been informed in other ways.