Australia has made big strides in flood warnings, levees and planning rules – but too often the message still doesn’t land.

Residents near Narrabeen Lagoon told to leave as homes flooded and cars submerged across city ...

It was one of those “one-in-one-hundred-year’’ weather events we hear so much about that it has become a statistical cliche.

Flooding has hit three cattle stations in northwest Queensland, where seven years ago thousands of cows drowned in similar severe weather. Australian Agricultural Company said on Monday that it was ...