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Queensland NDRRA expenditure by event Events Events Events between $2m - over Event under $2m $90m $90m 2009/10 Qld Bushfires, September - October 2009 Y South West Qld Flooding, 20-25 November 2009 Y Northern, Central & South West Qld Flooding, 22 December 09 to 8 January 2010 Y Qld Monsoonal Flooding & Tropical Cyclones Olga, Neville, Ului & Paul, January - April 2010 Y 2010/11 South West Qld Low & Associated Flooding, September 2010 Y South East Qld Flooding, 9-12 October 2010 Y Qld Flooding & Tropical Cyclones Tasha & Anthony, November 2010 - February 2011 Y Tropical Cyclone Yasi, 2 February 2011 Y Qld Monsoonal Flooding, 25 February - March 2011 Y South West Flooding, April 2011 Y 2011/12 Qld Bushfires, August - November 2011 Y Southern Qld Flooding, November - December 2011 Y South East Qld Heavy Rainfall & Flooding, 23-26 January 2012 Y Western Qld Tropical Low, 27 January - February 2012 Y Tropical Low, Far Northern Qld, 3-4 February 2012 Y North Coast Storms & Flooding, & East Coast Hybrid Low, 24 February - 7 March 2012 Y Heavy Rainfall & Flooding Northern & Far Northern Qld, 15 March 2012 Y East Coast Low, 22 March 2012 Y Localised Heavy Rainfall Northern Qld, October 2011 Y 2012/13 Far Northern Qld Bushfires, late October - December 2012 Y South West Qld Wildfires, December 2012 Y Tropical Cyclone Oswald & Associated Rainfall & Flooding, 21 - 29 January 2013 Y Central & Southern Qld Low, 25 February - March 2013 Y Longreach Floods, 18 February 2013 Y 2013/14 North Stradbroke Island fires, commencing 29 December 2013 Y Far North Qld Flooding, 27 - 31 January 2014 Y Tropical Cyclone Dylan, 31 January 2014 Y Tropical Cyclone Fletcher & Associated Rainfall & Flooding, commencing 2 February 2014 Y North East Qld Monsoonal Rainfall & Flooding, 7-9 February 2014 Y Central & Western Qld Flooding & Rainfall, 18 - 28 February 2014 Y Tropical Cyclone Ita & Associated Rainfall & Flooding, 11 - 14 April 2014 Y Central Coast & Southern Qld Trough, 26-30 March 2014 Y Tropical Cyclone Gillian, 10-11 March 2014 Y .

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