Flooding in Australia

North-eastern Australia's worst flooding in decades is continuing to cause chaos across the region.



About 1,000 people in Queensland, Australia have been evacuated as a result of what has been described as the country’s worst flooding in years.



Officials say the entire population of the town of Theodore has been evacuated.



The government has declared Theodore and two other towns in the region as disaster zones, and forecasters say the floods have not yet peaked.



The cost of the damage is expected to top 1 billion Australian dollars.