It was not a pleasant sight: as the city's ageing sewerage system failed to cope, streets filled with murky grey water that smelled and looked as if it was heavily polluted with raw sewage.

Australian residents are being urged to beware of crocodiles as the flooded Fitzroy River in Rockhampton recedes after peaking at a less than expected 8.6 metres.

A Kiwi is one of six people to die in the Queensland floods. He was being swept off his motorcycle at an intersection in the Brisbane suburb of Greenbank.

An 82-year-old former Masterton resident has been located by Interpol after his family feared he was lost in the Queensland floods.

With towns still isolated, thousands displaced and emergency supplies struggling to get through as stocks run short, Australia is again counting the cost of massive flooding.

Anne Bolland wept yesterday as swirling brown floodwaters advanced on her home in the low-lying Brisbane suburb of Milton.

The death of a boy hit by a falling tree has taken Queensland's flood toll to four, as the Australian city of Bundaberg remains in the grip of its worst ever flood.

Thousands of homes are underwater in Queensland and New South Wales as ex-tropical cyclone Oswald beats a devastating path down the coast, leaving authorities to prepare for another day of evacuations while floodwaters have already isolated hundreds of homes.

Queensland is gripped in another extraordinary flood crisis, as cities and towns across the state go under.

At least four people are feared dead in Queensland's unfolding flood crisis, which will leave the state with another massive damage bill.

While firefighters yesterday continued to battle huge blazes in Victoria, floods swept through Queensland, shutting down roads, railways and airports as former cyclone Oswald inundated coastal regions.