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There have been numerous floods in Australia's history which have caused untold devastation to lives and property. Not all are mentioned below.

  • On 25 June 1852, a torrent of water swept down the already flooded Murrumbidgee River, hitting the town of Gundagai and killing 89. There was a second, higher flood in 1853, and the town was relocated to its current site on the hill above the river.
  • 44 people were killed in Tasmania in April 1929 as a result of heavy rain and flooding. Some of these deaths occurred when the Briseis Dam on the Cascade River collapsed, flooding the town of Derby.
  • Heavy rain in the southeastern region of Australia in 1952. This particularly affected Victoria's Gippsland and southern coastal NSW.
  • In February 1955, a monsoon depression intensified and moved south from Queensland, accompanied by torrential rainfall. About 15,000 people were evacuated from the NSW town of Maitland due to rising floodwaters from the Hunter River. 1600 were evacuated from nearby Singleton.

    The floods moved down the Macquarie River to Dubbo, causing the evacuation of another 4000, and as far west as Warren and Narromine. When the Namoi and Gwydir Rivers flooded, this devastated the towns of Moree and Narrabri. These floods killed 25.

  • Western Queensland and northwest NSW were badly hit by floods in 1990, which especially hit the towns of Charleville and Nyngan. Six people died in these floods which also flooded 2000 homes.
  • Queensland's southeast has seen several floods, with arguably the most devastating occurring in 1974 and 2011. Much of Queensland was affected in both these years, nad there was also severe floods in central Queensland in 2009.
  • While Queensland was beginning to recover from the floods early in 2011, Victoria was hit by floodwaters, a combination of the waters moving downstream along the Darling River at the same time as the state received heavy rainfall. The rainfall system in Queensland also affected northern New South Wales.
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