Insurance agents have been called in from all over the country to help with claims from Queensland's flood crisis. 9News
"This has become an unprecedented flood event in Australian history," he said.
Mr Hall said the cost of the natural disaster would be similar to that of Cyclone Tracy, which devastated Darwin in 1974 and totaled between $2 and $4 billion dollars, today's currency, in damages."It will be comparable in terms of the rebuild," he said.
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