Qld floods inquiry heads into second day

The Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry is heading into the second day of its second round of hearings.

On Tuesday, the inquiry is expected to hear from several Brisbane City Council employees, including a structural engineer who is to talk about the destruction of the floating boardwalk that ran alongside the Brisbane River before the floods.

Public hearings into the state’s disastrous summer of floods resumed in Brisbane on Monday.

More than two million people were affected and 35 people died when 70 per cent of the state flooded.

Terminology used by councils, governments and insurers to explain flood risk to the public was described on Monday as confusing and misleading.

The inquiry heard that insurers were not bound to uphold the industry code of practice when faced with a rush of claims during natural disasters.

Government planner Gary White told the inquiry that councils were not specifically required to create flood maps for inclusion in the town plan.

The commission this week will continue to examine the issues of insurance and planning before heading to central Queensland to hear about how the floods impacted on the mining sector.

The inquiry handed down its interim findings in August and will deliver its final report in February.

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