A Kiwi living in Brisbane described the city as total chaos yesterday as people were evacuated.

The death toll from flooding in Queensland is expected to rise, says Premier Anna Bligh.

Bystanders watched in horror as a woman only centimetres from her rescuer lost her grip on a power pole and disappeared under a torrent of dirty water during flash floods in Queensland.

'Oh my God, I'm being swept away, come and get me,' was the last thing a NZ woman heard from her son, phoning from floodwaters.

Queensland premier Anna Bligh says southeast Queensland is facing a bigger flood than the catastrophic deluge of 1974, which killed 14. The worst of the disaster is yet to come, with Thursday predicted to be 'devastating'.

The NZ Civil Defence team helping residents of flood-stricken Queensland has been forced to return to the town of Condamine, as more floods again hit the town they had just left.

Brisbane CBD has been shut down as workers flee rising floodwaters, while five more bodies have been found in the Lockyer Valley, according to a report, bringing the toll from the Toowoomba flash floods to 11.

At least eight are dead and 72 unaccounted for after a wall of water rushed through the Australian city of Toowoomba.

A quick wrap of how the Queensland media is reporting the devastating effects of the floods across the state.

New Zealand international striker Shane Smeltz will resume playing for Queensland's Gold Coast United in the A-League.

The devastating Queensland floods are now threatening the state's largest city, Brisbane, where the city council is offering sandbags to residents in low-lying parts of the city.

Eastern Australia's sopping wet summer has set the scene for an "explosion" of imported New Zealand produce.

The floodwaters that have isolated towns, forced thousands from their homes, and devastated crops and industry appear to have peaked.

Queensland is losing up to $131m a day in coal exports over floods which have left 40 towns isolated or partly underwater.

Devastating flooding in Queensland has affected more than 200,000 people in a disaster zone bigger than New South Wales.

Twenty three Queensland towns and cities are now affected in a disaster zone larger than the size of New South Wales.

The damage from the Queensland floods is so extensive it will affect the international economy...

A nine-year-old Auckland boy survived going over a 20m waterfall in Queensland.

New Zealand will send a Civil Defence emergency response team to flood-ravaged Queensland.

I'd come to the Gold Coast looking for adventure and that was what I got.