Australia – Flood threat spreads but Wagga levee holds

Photo: Wagga Wagga,NSW - ABC News Video.

Hundreds of people have been evacuated from the city of Griffith as the southern New South Wales flood emergency spreads, but thousands more in central Wagga Wagga have been cleared to return home.

Australia – Wagga Wagga residents head to higher ground

PHOTO: Residents watch the swollen Murrumbidgee River from the levee. (AAP: Lukas Coch)- ABC News.

More than 8,000 people have been ordered out of their homes in Wagga Wagga as the city waits to see if an 11-metre levee will protect if from the rising Murrumbidgee River.

Australia – Evacuations continue as towns go under

Authorities are ordering more residents to evacuate as towns across New South Wales and Victoria are inundated in unprecedented flooding which has claimed the life of one man.

Australia – Thousands in evacuation centres across NSW, Victoria

 

Photo: Onlookers watch the Hawkesbury River rise above the Yarramundi Bridge, eastern NSW. (Marianna Massey: Getty) – ABC News

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Almost 2,000 people from the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley west of Sydney have spent the night in evacuation centres or with family and friends.

The State Emergency Service (SES) is hopeful they will be able to return home soon after rain eased in the region overnight.

Australia will follow EU ban on Iranian oil imports: Rudd

Laaska News  Jan 24, 2011

Australia will follow the EU lead in banning oil imports from Iran, the country’s foreign minister Kevin Rudd said on Tuesday.

Breastfeeding mothers warned about painkiller use

Laaska News  July 4,2011
SYDNEY, July 1 (Xinhua) — Breastfeeding mothers should limit their use of codeine-containing painkillers to four days as they can cause harm, an

Australia:Police sent in as flood death toll rises

Laaska News January 13,2011.
Extra police are being brought in to patrol vast flooded areas in Brisbane and Ipswich as the death toll from south-east Queensland’s devastating floods continues to rise.

Streets awash as flood peak hits Brisbane

Laaska News January 11,2011.
Thousands of people were forced to evacuate their properties as the Brisbane River hit the first of two predicted flood peaks in the Queensland capital this afternoon.

Floodbound Ipswich braces for peak

Laaska News January 11,2011.
As parts of Brisbane await their fate, more than 3,000 homes and businesses have already been inundated in Ipswich, west of Queensland’s capital.

The Bremer River was expected to peak at 22 metres but that has been revised down to 20.5 metres.

Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale says that is the equivalent of

Australia:Brisbane swamped as floodwaters rise

Laaska News January 11,2011.

Brisbane is preparing for the full impact of its worst flooding in more than 100 years, with officials warning almost 20,000 homes in the city will be flooded by early tomorrow morning.
Thirty-five Brisbane suburbs and 3,000 homes