The plan, to be paid for and delivered through all three levels of government, will spend $1.8 billion across south-east Queensland and create more than 2,000 jobs, but one expert says it doesn't ...

Deputy Premier Steven Miles said more than 15,000 property damage assessments had now been conducted across south-east Queensland and 1,778 had "severe" damage.

The scale of flood devastation: Horror map shows extent ... Untethered boats and pontoons caused carnage on the swollen Brisbane River as the 1000mm rain bomb continued to smash south-east Queensland.

Brisbane will take almost one-quarter – or 409,800 - of the extra 2 million people moving into south-east Queensland in the next 25 years. Ipswich appears to be on the edge of a new boom time.

Large swathes of sensitive areas in south-east Queensland would be off-limits to developers under a proposal for planning changes recommended by expert ecologists and environmentalists.