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Over a year's worth of rainfall fell in one week
The number of people who have died following flooding on Australia's east coast has risen to 20.
A man and a woman were found dead near an abandoned car in a stormwater canal in Sydney, as tens of thousands of people fled their homes overnight.
While police in Queensland confirmed the death of a man missing in floods over a week ago.
More than a year's worth of rainfall fell over a week in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Floods have swept away property, livestock and roads.