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North Queensland showers easing but life-threatening risks remain – BoM

Ben Smee

The Bureau of Meteorology says rainfall in north Queensland is gradually easing, but that serious threat remains after a week of heavy falls.

At Rollingstone, north of Cairns, there has been 1.28m of rainfall over the past week.

On Monday forecasters are expecting “heavy to locally intense” rainfall of about 150-300mm in some cases. That is about half what has been predicted in recent days.

Senior meteorologist Dean Narramore said the low pressure system was “starting to weaken” but that there was “continued threat of dangerous and life-threatening riverine and flash flooding”. He continued:

This is a significant and protracted weather event. That rainfall is expected to ease over the next 24 hours, but there is a lot of water in those catchments, there’s a lot of water on the ground, there’s more significant rain to come.

The Bureau of Meteorology says rainfall in north Queensland is gradually easing, but that serious threat remains after a week of heavy falls.

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At Rollingstone, north of Cairns, there has been 1.28m of rainfall over the past week.

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On Monday forecasters are expecting “heavy to locally intense” rainfall of about 150-300mm in some cases. That is about half what has been predicted in recent days.

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Senior meteorologist Dean Narramore said the low pressure system was “starting to weaken” but that there was “continued threat of dangerous and life-threatening riverine and flash flooding”. He continued:

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This is a significant and protracted weather event. That rainfall is expected to ease over the next 24 hours, but there is a lot of water in those catchments, there’s a lot of water on the ground, there’s more significant rain to come.

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Returning to the bushfires in Victoria, where firefighters are working to contain a number of blazes amid a three-day heatwave.

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Properties are feared destroyed in bushfires raging across regional Victoria as the state battles a slew of erratic weather, AAP reports.

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Residents at Mirranatwa in the Grampians National Park have been urged to leave immediately. Five Watch and Act warnings are currently in place, with residents urged to monitor changing conditions and prepare to leave.

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They cover Apollo Bay, Cape Horn, Hordern Vale and Cape Otway, and large parts of the Little Desert National Park and the Grampians National Park.

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The blaze in the Little Desert National Park, about 375km west of Melbourne, was declared contained but broke away on Sunday afternoon.

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Victorian authorities confirmed they received reports of property losses from a fire near Ouyen, north of the region’s national park, on Sunday night.

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It is believed two properties have been lost, Premier Jacinta Allan confirmed, as the inferno heads west towards Kaniva-Edenhope Road.

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“Our thoughts are with the community around Hattah in the northwest of the state,” she told reporters in Melbourne’s west on Monday.

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The Little Desert fire covers 84,000 hectares, while dual fires burning in the Grampians total 46,000 hectares.

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Anthony Albanese says he’s received a briefing from Canberra on the flooding in north Queensland.

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The federal and Queensland governments have activated disaster funding for parts of Townsville, Gordonvale, Hinchinbrook and Palm Island Council areas.

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That includes emergency payments of $180 for individuals, and up to $900 for families of five or more.

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In the worst of times we see the best of Australians.

And in recent days, I’ve seen Australians helping one another in their time of need.

This morning at the National Situation Room in Canberra, I received a briefing on the work underway to help those affected by the floods… pic.twitter.com/TOsb9386i5

— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) February 2, 2025

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A persistent deluge is hitting rain-soaked northern Australia with floodwaters still rising, leaving some people isolated, without power and desperate for swollen rivers to subside, AAP reports.

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The heaviest rain has fallen between Lucinda to Townsville in northern Queensland as the Bureau of Meteorology warns the big wet will continue for days.

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Nearly one metre of rain was recorded at Paluma Dam in Townsville in the last 48 hours, while Ingham has copped more than 400mm in the past day.

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The BoM has issued a severe weather warning from Tully to Ayr that’s likely to bring isolated falls of 300mm on Monday.

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The continued deluge has led to swollen waterways with major flood warnings in place for the Herbert River, the Ross and Bohle River, the Horton River and the Upper Burdekin River.

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Meteorologist Dean Narramore said persistent widespread rain would subside in the afternoon but increase again from Tuesday.

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The State Emergency Service was under pressure on Sunday night with 11 swift water rescues and nearly 400 calls for help for leaking ceilings, roof damage, flooding, evacuations and felled trees.

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Two people were saved from the roof of their car that was submerged in flood waters in Woodstock around 7pm, while another person was rescued from a truck stuck in floodwaters in Basalt.

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A major backer of the teal independents has topped the list of political donors ahead of the 2025 election.

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Robert Keldoulis and his investment firm Keldoulis Investments Pty Limited donated a combined $1.1m to Climate 200 in 2023-24, according to figures revealed by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) on Monday.

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Visy chairman Anthony Pratt (pictured below) was the second biggest donor, handing $1m to Labor.

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Marcus Catsaras rounded out the top three, donating just under $1m to Climate 200, the fundraising vehicle that backs the teal independents.

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Conspicuously absent from the list was billionaire Clive Palmer, who has topped the list in recent years after funnelling tens of millions of dollars through his company Mineralogy into his party United Australia Party.

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Palmer donated $117m ahead of the 2022 election, which delivered just one seat – Victorian Ralph Babet’s place in the upper house

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The AEC figures come as Labor attempts to clinch a deal on electoral reforms which are designed, in part, to block Palmer-style campaigns.

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The changes would cap individual donations at $20,000 and limit spending to $800,000 per electorate, or $90m nationally.

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The donation disclosure threshold would be lowered from $16,300 to $1,000, giving the public a much deeper insight into who is bankrolling the nation’s politicians.

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A man will face court in Sydney today charged with intimidation following alleged antisemitic abuse in Bondi at the weekend. Guardian Australia understands the incident is not related to eggs and verbal abuse towards five women on Saturday evening.

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Officers attached to Strike Force Pearl were patrolling the Bondi area about 7.40am on Saturday when they were flagged down by a woman reporting antisemitic abuse by a man allegedly seen in the yard of private premises in Flood Street.

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He was taken to Newtown police station and charged with stalk/intimidate intend fear physical harm – personal. The man was also charged with destroy or damage property for an unrelated incident at Newtown on Wednesday 15 January and breach of bail.

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Two outstanding warrants for unrelated domestic and personal violence and shoplifting offences were also executed.

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He has been refused bail to appear in Newtown local court today.

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A total of 12 people have now been charged under Strike Force Pearl.

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Shadow attorney general Michaelia Cash has called Donald Trump a “man of action” and indicated a Peter Dutton government would operate with the “exact same attitude” if elected.

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Appearing alongside independent member for Kooyong Monique Ryan on the Today show this morning, Cash batted away whether the US president had become “quite emboldened” this time in office and could be difficult to manage.

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We successfully worked with the Trump administration last time we were in office … under a Coalition government, you can work with a Trump regime … He’s showing that he’s a man of action. He was overwhelmingly re-elected by the American people … The American people, they expect action. And that is what they’re getting. And they’ll get the exact same attitude under a Peter Dutton government. And I can assure you, just like last time, we will work successfully with the Trump administration.

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The comments follow Dutton’s announcement of a new Elon Musk-style crusade for “government efficiency” and reducing the public service.

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Residents in Mirranatwa in the Grampians national park have been ordered to leave immediately before conditions become too dangerous, while Peronne and Morea at the Little Desert national park have been told to take shelter now.

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There is a bushfire at Little Desert national park that is not yet under control. The bushfire is travelling from Little Desert in a westerly direction … This fire is threatening homes and lives. It is too late to leave the area safely so you must take shelter now.

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Wong was also asked about Donald Trump’s string of tariffs announced on Canada, Mexico and China.

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Asked what that would mean for Australia, Wong said the president was “doing what he said he would do”.

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We shouldn’t be surprised by these announcements. They are consistent with what President Trump said during his campaign and what he said at the inauguration, which I was privileged to attend.

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In my engagements whilst I was in Washington for the inauguration, including with secretary [of state Marco] Rubio and other members of the Trump administration, I made it clear where Australia sits. We are a country in relation to whom the US has a trade surplus and all goods enter from the US under our free trade agreement, enter Australia without duties or tariffs or any other barriers. We are in a position where the US has a trade surplus with us.

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Pointed to Australia’s ongoing friendship with Canada, Wong said:

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We have to navigate the world in which we live confidently and with our eyes open. President Trump has said he will do things differently and he is doing things differently. This isn’t a surprise.

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Sanctions on neo-Nazi group part of work to ‘keep Australians safe’ – Wong

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The foreign minister, Penny Wong, was also up on ABC News Breakfast this morning to discuss counter-terrorism sanctions placed on neo-Nazi group Terrogram.

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She described the group as an online network which has “facilitated white supremacists and terrorists”.

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It is the first time an Australian government has imposed these sorts of sanctions and we are doing it because we are working to keep Australians safe. White supremacists, terrorists utilising this network now face counter-terrorism sanctions … This is part of [the] government working to keep Australians safe at a time where we see extremism, antisemitism on the rise and we have to continue to confront it.

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Asked if the group had been linked to a caravan of explosives discovered in Dural last week, Wong said she would not get into ongoing investigations to make sure “police can do their jobs”.

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Q: There will be restrictions on what information you can share, you are privy to top secret information. Has this group been linked to the caravan of explosives that was found in Dural or any of the other antisemitic attacks we have seen across Australia?

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Wong:

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We have to take action to prevent this network from continuing to be utilised and this is one measure we are taking, which is imposing counter-terrorism financing sanctions. This will mean up to 10 years in jail, very substantial fines if people do this, and it is a clear message this is unacceptable and we stand against hate in all of its forms.

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Radio heavyweight Kyle Sandilands has revealed he has been diagnosed with a brain aneurysm that will require emergency surgery.

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Speaking this morning on the Kyle & Jackie O Show, which he co hosts on KIIS FM, Sandilands told listeners he had received the diagnosis on Friday before going on to jest about poor ratings in Melbourne.

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I was told by my medical team, which sounds like I’m already very sick, … that I have a brain aneurysm and it requires immediate attention, brain surgery.

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If you just tuned in to us after all these years, lap it up. And if you’re in Melbourne … you’re coming to the party too late. You may get your wish – I may be dead.

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The 53-year-old was missing on Friday due to illness. He told listeners he had been experiencing a period of significant headaches and expected to take up to eight weeks off from radio following the procedure.

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The facts are a life of cocaine abuse and partying are not the way to go.

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Victoria set for highs over 40C as bushfires rage

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Millions of Victorians are in the grips of a three-day heatwave as tired crews try to tame raging fires following a night of wild weather, AAP reports.

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Temperatures are expected to hover in the high 30s and low 40s for north-west, west, north, north-east and central parts of Victoria today after a sweltering and stormy end to the weekend.

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Severe thunderstorms swept across Geelong and Melbourne on Sunday night, bringing lightning, hail and damaging winds. Power was cut to more than 38,000 customers across the state with unplanned outages as of 10.45pm Sunday.

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But the storms are set to give way to blazing sunshine on Monday, with a forecast top of 39C for Melbourne and Bendigo, 38C for Geelong and 36C for Ballarat.

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Meteorologists had predicted overnight minimums to stay in the mid to low 20s, heightening the chance of heat exhaustion.

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Severe heatwave warnings are also in place on Monday across the border in Adelaide and the South Australian regions of Riverland, Upper South East, Murraylands, Mount Lofty Ranges, Lower South East and the Mid North.

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Sunday’s hot conditions breathed new life into bushfires in the Grampians and Little Desert national parks, burning in Victoria’s west since Australia Day.

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More than eight in 10 Australian schools will face a “high climate risk” by 2060, severely impacting the nation’s education system and infrastructure, a new report has forecast.

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The Zurich-Mandala climate risk index, released on Monday, analysed the risk of the climate crisis across 9,829 primary and secondary schools across Australia for the first time.

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Two-thirds of schools in Australia currently face high climate risk. The report estimated this would increase to 84% of schools by 2060, under an intermediate climate scenario with 2C of warming.

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New South Wales and Queensland have the most schools at high risk with 92% and 91% respectively, followed by the ACT and the NT.

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The report found increased chances of bushfire and hail posed the greatest climate risk to Australia’s schools. Students are projected to experience 34 annual heatwave days by 2060.

\n Mandala partner Dr Adam Triggs said high classroom temperatures could slow children’s cognitive ability and function.

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Perhaps most troubling is how climate risks compound existing inequalities. The same schools already facing socio-educational disadvantage are often those most exposed to climate impacts, creating a double burden for vulnerable communities.

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Laws to enshrine the next step in Labor’s plan for universal childcare will be introduced when federal parliament this week, as Anthony Albanese attempts to leverage the flagship policy to propel his bid for re-election.

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The $426m plan, which the prime minister announced in December, would guarantee the childcare subsidy for three days a week to all families earning up to $530,000 from January 2026.

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The Coalition and Greens likely won’t allow swift passage of the bill through parliament, meaning it almost certainly won’t pass in what could be the final sitting fortnight before the election.

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But Labor will push ahead nonetheless in order to highlight a clear point of contrast with the opposition, which in December described the childcare announcement as a “desperate pitch to lure voters”.

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The minister for education, Jason Clare, said that “every child has the right to early education … and our Labor government is going to make that possible”.

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This is fundamentally about making sure every child gets a great start in life and start school ready to learn.

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At the moment the children who need early education the most can’t access it. They are missing out. As a result they start school behind and often never catch up. This will help fix that.

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Legislation to enshrine fee-free Tafe places, set up tax breaks for critical minerals processing and green hydrogen production and prevent any future sale of the National Broadband Network will also be prioritised in the coming sitting fortnight.

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Today is the first day of the unlawful dismissal case brought by journalist Antoinette Lattouf against the ABC, which allegedly unlawfully dismissed her from a casual Sydney radio job in December 2023 three days into a five-day contract.

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Witnesses who are expected to appear in the courtroom at Sydney’s federal court during the trial include former ABC chair Ita Buttrose, outgoing chief content officer Chris Oliver-Taylor and outgoing managing director David Anderson.

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The three ABC leaders have all left or are in the process of leaving the national broadcaster but were central figures in the case in 2023.

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On Friday the court released a number of documents which included a list of emails between Buttrose and Anderson.

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The content of the emails are yet to be released by the court.

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But the list of dozens of emails shows the flow of communication between the chair and the MD in the hours leading up to Lattouf’s sacking after her shift on Wednesday 20 December.

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“Between 11.04 am and 11.31 am on Wednesday, 20 December 2023, Ms Buttrose sent a series of emails,” the agreed statement of facts published by the court says.

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Good morning, readers.

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Caitlin Cassidy here to take you through today’s news, with all eyes on Canberra ahead of parliament’s return on Tuesday.

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This will be one of the last sittings before the formal election campaign kicks off, and Labor has a full slate of legislation to deal with, from hate speech laws to super tax changes.

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Speaking of the federal election: Labor launched a new ad campaign this weekend with the tagline “You’ll be worse off under Peter Dutton” – we’ll bring you more on that in a moment.

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In Sydney, today is the first day of the unlawful dismissal case brought by journalist Antoinette Lattouf against the ABC. Lattouf was taken off air three days into a five-day casual contract in December 2023 after she posted on social media about the Israel-Gaza war, which the ABC said was a breach of editorial policy.

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Witnesses who are expected to appear in the court room at Sydney’s federal court during the trial include former ABC chair Ita Buttrose, outgoing chief content officer Chris Oliver-Taylor and outgoing managing director David Anderson.

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And more record rainfalls are forecast in north Queensland after a woman was killed in floodwaters amid emergency warnings and evacuations.

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Let’s get into it.

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Key events

Jonathan Barrett

Retail spending slips after shoppers bring forward Christmas spending

Australian retail trade dipped slightly in December after many shoppers took advantage of Black Friday sales to buy Christmas presents the month before.

Retail sales fell to $37bn in December, down 0.1% compared with November. The figures confirm a growing trend in Australia for shoppers to replace their December spending splurge with more purchases in late November.

Spending on household goods was resilient in December, rising 1.6%, while households cut back on their typical clothing and footwear purchases, the Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows.

Food retailing increased slightly, although there was a drop in supermarket and grocery store spending.

North Queensland showers easing but life-threatening risks remain – BoM

Ben Smee

The Bureau of Meteorology says rainfall in north Queensland is gradually easing, but that serious threat remains after a week of heavy falls.

At Rollingstone, north of Cairns, there has been 1.28m of rainfall over the past week.

On Monday forecasters are expecting “heavy to locally intense” rainfall of about 150-300mm in some cases. That is about half what has been predicted in recent days.

Senior meteorologist Dean Narramore said the low pressure system was “starting to weaken” but that there was “continued threat of dangerous and life-threatening riverine and flash flooding”. He continued:

This is a significant and protracted weather event. That rainfall is expected to ease over the next 24 hours, but there is a lot of water in those catchments, there’s a lot of water on the ground, there’s more significant rain to come.

Benita Kolovos

Allan puts case for voting Labor in Werribee byelection

Back to Victorian premier Jacinta Allan’s press conference.

On the byelection in Werribee, Allan is asked why voters would back Labor, given the lack of funding it has given the safe seat over the years.

Why wouldn’t a Werribee voter “vote out a Labor member, so in two years’ time Labor throws the kitchen sink at the electorate to try to win it back?” a reporter asks.

Allan replies that the government is listening to the local community and is investing in more road infrastructure in the area. She says:

We have to keep building, we have to keep investing and that’s the message we’re getting. We’re not just listening to that message, we’re acting on that as well, with these investments and more. And I want to say that very clearly to the Werribee community and communities right around the state, in contrast to our Liberal opponents, who have already flagged an agenda for cuts and have already flagged an agenda of hurt.

I say to the Liberal party, what are you going to cut and who are you going to hurt? Because I’m going to fight against those cuts, and I’m going to fight for vulnerable Victorians who need a premier to fight for them.

Amanda Meade

ABC editorial chief said Lattouf hadn’t breached ABC guidelines, court told

The ABC’s editorial director told the broadcaster’s executives that Antoinette Lattouf had not breached the ABC’s editorial guidelines early in the week when the journalist was a stand-in host in December 2023, the federal court has heard.

The advice from the editorial director was sought after the ABC received a large number of complaints about the ABC’s decision to appoint her as a casual host.

Oshie Fagir, for Lattouf, said the ABC’s managing director David Anderson had done his own research of her social media and told his executive that he found evidence that her “socials are full of anti semitic hatred”.

“Now there is no explanation in Mr Anderson’s evidence of what precisely he regarded to be antisemitic hatred, but that is what he said in a text message to Mr [Chris] Oliver Taylor,” Fagir said in his opening statements.

He [Anderson] then went on to say ‘not sure we can have someone on air that suggests that Hamas should return to their ethnic cleansing in Gaza and move on to the West Bank’. Now it’s very difficult to understand what on earth Mr Anderson was talking about, but the hostility is patent, and the reason for the hostility is patent.

Fagir said former ABC chair Ita Buttrose said Lattouf should not have been hired and should be removed, saying “we owe her nothing”.

“We’re copping criticism because she [Lattouf] wasn’t honest when she was appointed,” Buttrose said, according to Fagir.

Ben Smee

Queensland authorities ready for ‘likelihood of more flooding’ – Crisafulli

Meanwhile, the Queensland premier, David Crisafulli, says communities between Mackay and Cairns should stay alert.

Speaking to the media this morning, he said authorities “remain prepared for the ongoing prospect of more rain and the likelihood of more flooding”.

He also urged residents in Townsville’s “black zone” – six suburbs: Hermit Park, Railway Estate, Rosslea, Idalia, Oonoonba and Cluden – who were advised to leave yesterday, should stay away until given the all clear.

He said more rainfall, tides, and dam releases meant those areas were still at risk of more flooding.

Our advice to people in the black zone at the moment is to stay outside the zone and to stay safe. We are prepared for a scenario where rivers continue to rise.

Benita Kolovos

Allan says Dutton ‘grossly uninformed’ on rail loop project

Allan is also asked to respond to comments federal opposition leader Peter Dutton made on 3AW radio this morning in which he said the state government’s Suburban Rail Loop project was a “cruel hoax”.

Dutton said Allan “doesn’t have a dollar to her name” to put towards it.

She replied:

Well, it’s pretty clear that the federal opposition leader doesn’t spend much time in Victoria, because if he did, he wouldn’t make these grossly uninformed comments that he’s just made … we’ve got funding from the state government, funding from the federal government committed to this project, and it’s clear to me that Peter Dutton is signalling he’s going to go back to the future.

He’s going to repeat to Victorians what we saw when he last sat at the cabinet table, dudding Victorians of their fair share of funding.

Benita Kolovos

In respect to the storms, the premier says the Barwon South West region was worst affected. Allan says:

Geelong was really, really hard hit. There were also parts of the south east and Phillip Island as well. Look, the clean up is obviously in full swing.

This morning, the SES had 820 requests for assistance, mostly for trees down but also for flash flooding and building damage. And there is likely to be more reports coming in over the course of the morning as people assess the damage in their local areas.

It was a wild storm, and that huge lightning event has caused a number of these fires that we’ve been talking about …with a predicted weather change tomorrow afternoon is also causing a worry that there’ll be more storm and wind and dry lightning damage that’s going to come with that weather change tomorrow afternoon.

Benita Kolovos

Allan also urged anyone who lives near the fires that can see smoke to report it to authorities, as it may be the result of the “huge lightning storm” overnight:

The commissioner has asked me to ask Victorians in these areas too, that if you see smoke on the horizon, if you see smoke in your local area, please report it. That huge lightning storm event that swept through the state yesterday has caused these fires, particularly around the Colac Otway area, and there’s a concern that they may have caused more that as the heat of the day rises, these fires will become active.

So please be alert to your condition. Please support the work of our emergency services, our volunteers. The state control center will be providing a more detailed update later on today, but again, I do ask all Victorians to stay alert to your conditions, look after one another. We’ve still got a couple of really hot days to come in just this week, and we’ve still got a number of weeks of summer ahead of us.

Benita Kolovos

Premier confirms two properties thought lost to fires in Victoria’s north-west

The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, held a press conference in Werribee earlier this morning, ahead of the byelection this weekend. She also provided an update on the extreme heat the state is experiencing.

Allan says:

For the next day or two ahead, the prediction is for ongoing extreme heat and when I was speaking with the emergency management commissioner earlier this morning, he asked me to remind Victorians that the cumulative impact of day after day of extreme heat is really impacting on vulnerable Victorians. So if you can, please check in on your loved ones, please check in on your neighbour and also look after yourself as we go through this period of extreme heat.

She says two fires continue to burn in the Grampians national park. A fire in Little Desert is also now under control after it broke containment lines due to extreme winds on Sunday, as is a blaze in Hattah. However, fires in the Colac-Otway regions continue to develop.

Allan says:

Our thoughts are with the community around Hattah in the north-west of the state, where there was a fire that they quickly got back under control, but very sadly, there were two properties that are believed to have been lost, and they’re doing further assessments in that community. And then we turn our attention to the fires around the Colac Otways area, where there are fires around the north and the west of Apollo Bay – and this is particularly concerning. There are huge resources, ground resources are being deployed right now to get on top of this fire.

Residents of parts of Townsville and nearby towns, including Ingham and Cardwell, have evacuated to shelters as rising flood waters inundate their homes.

Heavy rainfall is expected to continue to soak north Queensland, pouring more water into dams and rivers that have already overflowed, forcing further evacuations and threatening thousands of homes.

Authorities are warning the near-record deluge could become more severe than ‘once in a lifetime’ storms five years ago.