Australia hit the city mayor said the lessons learned from the disaster

 1 14 January, the Australian city of Brisbane, the water level began to fall, the residents immediately started cleaning and finishing work after the flood the whole city is gradually restored to normal order.

recently suffered severe flooding in the capital of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Mayor Campbell Newman said recently that human factors such as flood control measures properly the floods exacerbated the severity of the relevant prevention policies and measures should be investigated, thus lessons learned to improve future flood control work.

Newman in an interview with Xinhua, said that from 1974 to 2004, Queensland's flood control policy has obvious defects. He believes that it is necessary to protect the Queensland government at all levels from the threat of flooding to local policies and measures in an open and transparent investigation.

Recently, the Australian media quoted experts as saying hydrology, Queensland authorities in research and the accumulation of hydrological data, flood prevention measures in urban layout and other aspects of planning and long-standing neglect. Some experts believe that the dam near Brisbane wivenhoe authorities before the arrival of the rainy season, excess water, flood storage capacity of the dam a serious decline, thus exacerbating the disaster in Brisbane.

Newman told reporters that the past two years, Brisbane's economic development by the global economic crisis greatly affected, and this flood Gengrang the local economy even worse. The current flood level has dropped, it is imperative that the full implementation of the cleanup and reconstruction efforts. According to Newman introduced, Brisbane cleanup work will continue for many months, reconstruction work will last one and a half to two years,

for foreign investors and tourists concerns, Newman said:

end of last year, three quarters of the region of Queensland affected by the floods, thousands of people flee their homes. Southern region of the state, 15 people were killed in floods and another 55 were missing. Brisbane has flooded nearly 27,000 houses, 5,000 shops in water, 70,000 people were wind up power, only the damaged houses and buildings caused direct economic losses of up to 30 billion Australian dollars (1 Australia U.S. $ 0.99 million). (Xinhua Fuyun Wei Jiang Yaping)