Australian troops to be deployed to assist flood-hit Northern Territory
Sydney, March 15 (IANS) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that military troops will be deployed to help communities hit by days of flooding in the Northern Territory (NT). The government has approved the assistance from Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel to communities around Katherine, 270 km southeast of the territory’s capital Darwin, […]
Flood emergency prompts widespread warnings in Australia’s Queensland
Sydney, Jan 13 (IANS) Flood warnings have been issued across the northeast Australian state of Queensland as ex-Tropical Cyclone Koji continues to cause widespread intense rainfall. As of Tuesday morning local time, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) had multiple flood warnings in place for rivers and catchments in central, northeast and northwest Queensland after some […]
