Queensland rejects PM's offer of an emergency declaration for flood assistance

The Prime Minister has travelled to Brisbane to examine the city's flood clean-up operation, after facing anger a day earlier from stricken locals in northern New South Wales.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison talks to ADF members in the Brisbane suburb of Milton Source: AAP

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Highlights

• The same National Emergency Declaration was made in northern New South Wales but Queensland Premier Annastacia Palasczcuk has rejected the offer, saying it's come too late.
• A new report by the Climate Council argues the cost of the east coast floods disaster shows the price of inaction on climate change.
• The report also finds the east coast floods rank among Australia's biggest natural disasters on record, as rising global temperatures intensify extreme weather events. It shows that over three days, Brisbane received 80 per cent of its annual rainfall - that's equal to more rain than London typically gets in a year.

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