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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/brisbane-disaster-cleanup-begins.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Residents in New Farm clear away mud and debris in Brisbane, Australia (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-brisbane-disaster-cleanup-begins.jpg" alt="Residents in New Farm clear away mud and debris in Brisbane, Australia (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Parts of Australia&#8217;s third-largest city have reopened as deadly floodwaters that had swamped entire neighbourhoods receded, revealing streets and thousands of homes covered in a thick layer of putrid sludge.</p>
<p>Dustbin lorries moved through Brisbane&#8217;s muddy streets and some residents dragged ruined furniture out of their homes as the massive clean-up began following one of Australia&#8217;s worst natural disasters.</p>
<p>In towns upstream of Brisbane, soldiers picked their way through debris looking for more victims. Weeks of flooding across Australia&#8217;s north east have caused 25 deaths, and 55 people were still missing.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is a lot of heartache and grief as people start to see for the first time what has happened to their homes and their streets,&#8221; Queensland state premier Anna Bligh said. &#8220;In some cases, we have street after street after street where every home has been inundated to the roof level.&#8221;</p>
<p>The muddy waters from the Brisbane River swamped 30,000 homes and businesses in Brisbane.</p>
<p>One man drowned on Thursday when he was sucked into a storm drain as he tried to check on his father&#8217;s home in an inundated neighbourhood of the city. Officials expected to find more bodies further upstream as they finally got access to hamlets struck by flash flooding on Monday.</p>
<p>Most of the people still unaccounted for are from around Toowoomba, a city west of Brisbane in the Lockyer Valley where a sudden downpour caused a flash flood likened to an inland tsunami.</p>
<p>Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson said that officials may never be able to find everyone swept away by the raging torrent. &#8220;We would certainly hope they would find them all,&#8221; Mr Atkinson said. &#8220;Regrettably, we could not exclude completely the possibility that some may never be found.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ms Bligh warned the clean-up task would be of &#8220;post-war proportions&#8221;.</p>
<p>Prime minister Julia Gillard doubled the number of defence personnel involved in the recovery effort to 1,200, the largest deployment for a natural disaster since Cyclone Tracy destroyed the northern city of Darwin in 1974.</p>
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