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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/australia-braced-for-more-flooding.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Rural Australian towns are braced for another week of flooding (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-australia-braced-for-more-flooding.jpg" alt="Rural Australian towns are braced for another week of flooding (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Rural Australian towns are braced for another week of flooding as a vast lake continues to spread across the country&#8217;s south east and a potential tropical storm threatens the north east.</p>
<p>The flooding began more than a month ago in Australia&#8217;s north-east Queensland state, where 30 people have died, more than 30,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed and at least 3 billion Australian dollars in crops and coal exports have been lost.</p>
<p>Record rains have shifted the flood emergency focus to south-east Victoria state, which is usually parched during the southern summer.</p>
<p>Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan said in a statement that the floods will rank as one of the most costly natural disasters in Australian history and its impact on the economy will be felt for years.</p>
<p>The government will announce its first cost estimates on Friday, he said.</p>
<p>The State Emergency Service has warned that a lake about 55 miles long north west of the Victorian capital of Melbourne will continue coursing inland for the next week until it spills into the Murray River.</p>
<p>Emergency services are focusing their efforts 210 miles north west of Melbourne at Swan Hill, a town of 10,000 where the Murray meets the swollen Lodden River and flood waters are expected to peak mid week, SES spokesman Sam Bishop.</p>
<p>SES said 75 towns in the state have been affected by flooding and another five to 10 towns are still in the floodwaters&#8217; northern path across flat wheat-growing country.</p>
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