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A small plane takes off from a portion of the flooded runway at the Rockhampton airport in the state of Queensland, Jan. 2. Large parts of Australia's coastal northeast were flooded on Sunday in a spreading environmental disaster as thousands of residents fled their homes to avoid the runoff from a Christmas deluge.

New evacuations along Australia's coast as inland floodwaters head for the sea

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