 Thank you. Firstly, the Premier will be available later on today. She is travelling to Mitchell with the State Disaster Coordinator Ian Stewart, and will be available for comment at that time. At this point, evacuations are continuing out of the township of St George. Overnight and into this morning, approximately 2,500 people have vacated the town, principally by bus to the neighbouring centre of Dolby, where they are being housed in at least two evacuation centres, but also by aircraft into Brisbane overnight into the early hours of this morning, where there are 30 or 40 people and more expected throughout the day into the RNA showgrounds. Additional flights have been scheduled for St George today to take the remaining people out. There is still a contingent, obviously, of police and emergency services personnel in the town. Particularly, the message to those people who have left is that the police numbers have tripled in the town to ensure security, particularly on their homes, and that will be the major focus of police in the coming days. Most people, as I have indicated, have travelled by bus to Dolby and are settling into evacuation centres there. We do expect a number of people to be there for many days before they are able to return to their homes in St George. The river at St George topped 13.5 metres earlier today, that is in excess of the record set in March 2010 of just around 13.4 metres. The advice from the Bureau today is that it will peak overnight, some level above 14 metres and potentially higher. So again, we are in uncharted territories here. These are new records, never seen before in the St George area. There have been questions raised about the Beardmore Dam. The advice we have is that there are no structural issues with the Beardmore Dam. It is behaving as expected and as designed. The Meany Highway out of St George closed temporarily last night. It has reopened currently, but we do expect that to close on and off over the coming 24 hours. Currently, in St George, there are around 30 homes inundated or over 30 homes inundated, but we do expect that to rise, obviously, as the waters head towards their peak of at least 14 and possibly higher metres. Currently, the airstrip does remain open, so it does allow for those additional evacuations by air to continue early this morning and into early this afternoon. With respect to both Mitchell and Roma, the cleanup is commencing. However, there are still many homes which will be inaccessible to local residents, so it is expected that many people will remain in evacuation centres for some time. Both at Mitchell, two evacuation centres have been set up at the council depot and also at the school. Damage assessments for homes in both Roma and Mitchell have commenced as of the last couple of days. Preliminary assessments show that in Mitchell, around 250 homes or more or 280 homes or more have damage with water above the floorboards and in Roma, at least over 400, so very significant damage and, of course, very significant dislocation to those individuals, so obviously a lot of preparation and planning to ensure that those people can be housed and supported in the coming days, particularly in relation to the cleanup, where extra personnel, obviously from Queensland Fire and Rescue, Queensland Police, SES Rural Fire, will be brought into the area to assist with those cleanup operations. Across the region, 16 schools are closed, 12 state, four Catholic and non-government and some childcare centres and TAFE centres, so parents should keep in touch with their local community radio to get further advice on that. With respect to Charleville, the readings this morning on the Warrego River were that it had dropped to around 7.1 metres below the peak. It is expected to remain high for a couple of days, but given that the levee has held well, there is a possibility that many people will be able to return to their homes in Charleville later on today, but that will be dependent on local advice. So with those few words, I might ask if the Commissioner wants to add anything, and then we're happy to answer questions. Thank you, Minister. In relation to the Moonee Highway, it will open and close for a foreseeable period of time as water flows fluctuate, so we'd ask people not to use the Moonee Highway. If you do have to use the Moonee Highway, then contact your local police for the latest advice, but that will open and close over the next day or so. In relation to St George, we understand there's still several hundred people who've chosen to remain in St George. Our request of those folk is to please leave. There is still an opportunity to do that. The airport is still open, and we still have flights out of St George, and we would much prefer for you to leave. Our planning as well at the moment is focused on those towns that are about to be inundated with flood waters, although we're hopeful in respect of both of those towns primarily at the moment. That's Canamulla and Durham-Bandy, that neither of those two centres will be extensively flooded at all, and we're hopeful that things will be okay for both, but we're monitoring and watching that together with other smaller towns that will experience flood waters in the next few days very closely. And finally, I just make the plea again for people driving on any roads at all that slogan. If it's flooded, forget it. Please do not drive into flood waters under any circumstances. That's all I had, and happy to take your questions, as the minister indicated. Obviously, a tragic situation. Indeed, it was tragic. Just a terrible thing. It was a property south of St George, and I understand the child is around 18 months of age. The mandatory evacuations from St George, obviously not everybody has one, so are you unhappy that not everybody followed and requested mandatory evacuation? We're disappointed. We're not surprised. We always expected that would be some people who would stay. And whilst the evacuation is mandatory, and we do expect that people would leave and hope that they would, the vast majority have. Our situation though is that we can't and won't physically force people, drag people out of their homes. That's not viable or practical to do that. But we repeat the request for people to leave. We asked you to really quite frankly show some understanding and some leadership in terms of obeying and complying with the mandatory order. That's done for the best of purposes. And one of our concerns is that if this situation deteriorates rapidly, and it might, then you could put other people's lives at risk in terms of rescuing and saving you at the 11th hour, and that's really avoidable. What are the numbers there? 2,500? We're doing an audit at the moment to try and determine precisely how many people have chosen to stay in town. We think that that's several hundred. So the population of St George is in the vicinity of 3,000. So around two and a half thousand have departed either voluntarily through their own vehicles or through the bus or aircraft that's been provided. That's possible. And that's why I said earlier that people wanting to use the many highway and there'd be no better reason than, you know, for someone leaving St George to do that. But to contact the local police in St George before you head it off because it will fluctuate. And it's quite possible that in a four-wheel drive, someone leaving St George could get through to Dalby. But they should seek the advice of the local police before they left St George. Not that I'm aware of. I'm not sure if the minister has any of this reports. If the current predictions hold true in terms of the levels and the airport will go out. Well, again on current predictions that will probably that could happen later tonight or tomorrow. Well, we're not a hundred percent sure. This stage is only 30 people there. But those people who are being flown out of St George will all be going to the RNA show grounds and it will depend on the take-up rate of that. And certainly there's no difficulty while the airport remains open in terms of the availability of flights. And we have two more planned for today. So I would expect that there will probably be, I would have thought at least maybe 50 to 100 more people coming into the RNA show grounds later today. There will be additional issues obviously further south than Durham-Bandy. But at this stage our view is that that should be able to hold with the current levee. However, that won't be until later in the week and we'll get more assessments from the Bureau about impacts downstream. But most certainly there'll be a lot of rural properties where there will be flooding. So it's not just in the townships themselves. In fact some of the more significant impact in terms of individuals can be on those remote properties and we're very conscious of that. The success of the levee at Charleville, is there a good lesson for the future in other towns? Is it possible to have these other towns? Well, I think we've seen not just in Charleville but indeed in places like Aldrich Orgathalla and Durham-Bandy and other places where levees exist and they've been there for many many years, 10, 20 or 30 years or longer in some instances that levees can provide an effective means of protecting townships. So certainly in Charleville we saw very dramatic footage of the water lapping the top of the levee but it held and I think that's a good lesson for all of us but the lessons of levees have simply been there for some time and they've been very effective in a number of rural communities for many many years. Well I think again that's a matter for the experts, the hydrologists but certainly at St George we've never seen floods at this level so we're in new territory but of course after every event decisions and analysis is made as to whether there can be other protective measures put in place. In some areas it's very difficult, in some of this territory it's very very flat land. For example places like Bolland the water just spreads like a flood plain so sometimes it's very difficult to provide appropriate protection but certainly every time there's an event discussions will take place locally and indeed with state and federal governments about what sort of mitigation measures can be put in place for the future. The Premier is on her way to Mitchell now with the state disaster coordinator Ian Stewart and they'll be available for media when they arrive as well. Okay just by way of additional information in terms of aerial assets that have been deployed into the region of course we have the commercial providers and the ADF supporting the evacuation out of St George but in terms of other aerial assets into the general region we have obviously privately contracted helicopter providers and aircraft providers. Emergency management Queensland have deployed their emergency rescue helicopters into the area and we also have for the first time and very significantly surf lifesaving helicopters that have been deployed into that region as well. We've developed a very good partnership with surf lifesaving Queensland and we're very grateful for their resources that have been made available in these western communities as well. I thank you for your time.