 Thank you and good afternoon. On the weatherfront continuing to have some good news with that rain continuing to contract to the north and the falls are no less than expected up to 80 most places, most of the areas with some heavier falls, but they're not contributing to the current flood events. That's good news and we hope obviously that that continues. In terms of places to watch, as we said yesterday, Emerald, Thunderbird and Rockhampton continue to be the focus and attention for the future. In the Emerald, at present we're anticipating a flood event that's higher than 2008. If you remember back that flood cut the road, we had people at evacuation centres with Emerald cut off for some time. We're expecting this event to be probably 300 millimetres higher than that and on this occasion we'll cut off both the road and the rail access to Emerald. For the last event we were able to continue to supply Emerald by rail, we'll have to rail bridge but that will be lost. We are putting in place helicopters that will be able to continue to resupply Emerald and people will be moving either to family, friends or to evacuation centres. The peak there is expected on Friday and as I said evacuation centres have been prepared, the bedding and all the things that are necessary to keep those going. We're working with the Department of Communities and Red Cross to be able to support those evacuation centres. In Bundaberg, the floodpeaks are again expected during the day. 300 people have been moved out of Caravan Park in Bundaberg. They're being relocated and we'll ask them to move on. There's likely to be further inundation with property needs. Bundaberg is an area clean watch very, very closely today. I think today the Premier and the Minister are visiting Bundaberg and Rockhampton during the course of the day. They'll be getting a first hand report on what's likely to be occurring there. In Rockhampton, we are expecting a major flood in Rockhampton during next week. This will be a significant flood likely to close road and rail access to Rockhampton. We expect at this stage, and these are early predictions, there's lots more modelling to be done. As you can understand the river systems in that catchment, it's a huge catchment with lots of river systems. Some of those haven't peaked as yet. So the Bureau needs to get that data before they can give accurate picture of the height. But at this stage, we are planning for 400 homes to have water around them and up to 15 properties with water up to the floorboards and maybe above. So this will be a significant event for Rockhampton as long as we continue to watch and buy it closely. As you be aware, the township of Theodore, we have been undertaking an evacuation of the township. As far as I'm aware, and my colleagues evacuating the entire town, in Queensland, is unprecedented. And that evacuation has gone extraordinarily well. All the residents are now out of Theodore and have been relocated either to a mine camp in Mauer at a staging point or into other townships around. That was undertaken by helicopter. And this morning, some residents were very concerned about their pets and arrangements have been made for the pets to be relocated as well. So as you can imagine, many people with companion pets are very nervous about leaving them behind in those conditions. We ask all people who are being affected by this flood to be patient. There has been a significant and extraordinary amount of rain associated with this event. These flood waters are likely to remain high for a long period of time. In some cases, that might be measured by weeks rather than days. So people need to be very patient about if they have moved out of their property, it may be some time before they can move back in. People have had their properties inundated, then obviously safety is a key issue and those properties will need to be inspected to help the perspective and also from electric safety before people can move back in. So patience is key here. People need to understand when working as hard as we can that these waters will go down when nature tells us they'll go down, not when we want them to. Evacuation centres around Queensland last night there were over 700 people still housed in evacuation centres and many more staying with family and friends. So the scale of this event is significant. The Department of Communities is ramping up to provide assistance to those people affected and what I'll do is give you a number 1800 173 349 and if people have been affected or are facing hardship of any kind as a result of this flood event they should call that number and Communities will be able to tell them what assistance is available to support them through this difficult period. In terms of safety, roads continue to be a concern and Brett will speak more about that in a moment I'm sure. As the waters do go down I'm sure we'll find lots of damage to roads so again, call on people to be patient. As roads are impossible you've got to attempt to go through them you've got to attempt to go through water. When the water recedes the pavement of the roads is likely to be damaged so observe all speed limits. There are going to be road workers now attempting to repair these roads drive slowly and safely around those people they're attempting to get you home as quick as you can and they don't want people screaming fast at under plus parameters now but that makes their life dangerous. So if we can all show a little patience and help the people who are trying to help that will be fantastic. In terms of water a number of these communities will need to closely look at the water and if the water is discoloured or you're more concerned then the quickest thing is to boil that water for three minutes or more and then it will be safe for drinking. So just monitor that closely you don't want people getting sick because of contaminating water. And as I indicated those people who have had water above their floorboards you will need an electrical inspection before the electricity can be reconnected to your home. We will attempt to try and coordinate extra electricians to support and undertake that so that people can get back into their homes at the earliest possible time but again we plead to people to be patient during this time. And the other thing, the final thing is the best source of information about things generally in the three of your local councils. So if there are any issues any concerns other than those that I've spoken about contacting your local council they'll be able to give you information about your local community. Thank you Brett. Thanks very much Brett. A couple of issues I'd like to touch on the first one's road safety Brett's correctly pointed out that we're still in a response and a recovery mode so we are seeing water falling in areas all around the state while other areas of course water is still rising. Many people at this point in time are making plans for the year to be as people returning from Christmas festivity and of course the general traffic in South Scotland is still holiday. We're appealing the people to plan those trips we can start with the third in 1940 number on road closure Brett pointed out quite correctly there's going to be a lot of emergency services workers fixing roads as water recede there'll be potholes and other damage to roads we're asking people to drive to the road conditions to plan their trips very carefully and to respect those emergency services workers who are repairing roads. Yesterday had I think we had a situation where someone has removed and shifted the road closure sign this caused a fire of fire that's killed the road this is another example of a concentration if that can happen when people do silly things what's happened at 18 years old they aren't known last night and they delay the fire of fire and get into a mental situation also yesterday we had a 17 year old and a 15 year old brother and sister who had to be rescued in the flooded water across them once again we'd like to reinforce the causes of everyone whether on pedestrian traffic or whether in vehicles not to enter flooded water you know we've had a long period of drought between plans people have generally experienced in dealing with flooded water entering those waters with perils and once again the emergency services personnel from poor duty just having to rescue them the brother and sister were very very lucky to survive yesterday and the representatives from the Queensland Fire and Rescue Authority told me there's been 12 switchable rescues yet today so thank you for sitting out and getting that message out so important that people don't drive in or otherwise end up could I ask you make an important question about what we're doing about rescuing the dogs and cats but they've gone back for all the dogs and cats what happened was the last people who were concerned had to lay their departure the containers to take the dogs and cats so it's coming today so the people in that area were very very lucky they did but I wouldn't go to the entertainment that's a fairly normal respect so the others are going around the world that's why I've counted that way it's more like a magic thing for them that's absolutely right but it would be very important what's happening now so it wasn't that they couldn't take them initially because they had to get people out of there but they had to have the containers because they're an helicopter and it's a holocaust so you shouldn't surround that and have to take them back