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Local authorities have placed up to 300,000 people under evacuation warnings in one of the country's worst flooding incidents.

Local authorities have placed up to 300,000 people under evacuation warnings in one of the country's worst flooding incidents.

Local authorities have placed up to 300,000 people under evacuation warnings in one of the country's worst flooding incidents.

Tens of thousands of people have been ordered to leave their homes and many more have been told to prepare to flee on Australia’s southeast coast.

Tens of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate their homes and many more have been told to prepare to flee as parts of Australia’s southeast coast are inundated by the worst flooding in more than a decade. The flooding has claimed at least 10 lives. Scores of residents spent hours trapped on their roofs in recent days by a fast-rising river in the town of Lismore in northern New South Wales state. The New South Wales government said 40,000 people have been ordered to evacuate. In Brisbane, meteorologist Rick Threlfall measured more than 37 inches of rain in three days. He says tha...