Major flooding continues in the Gympie, Maryborough and Sunshine Coast regions north of Brisbane after widespread rainfall saturated the area with totals of 200-600 .
On Thursday, in the morning, at Government House, Her Excellency the Honourable Jeannette Young PSM received a call, via teleconference, from Mayor of Fraser Coast Regional Council, Councillor George Seymour.
A second man has died in floods in southeast Queensland which have left some communities isolated three days after more than half a metre of rain fell on the Wide Bay-Burnett region.