Australia to Boost Flooding Aid, Balance Budget, Gillard Says
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Australia will boost aid to flood-stricken areas in the coal and sugar producing state of Queensland while sticking to a promise to return the budget to surplus by 2013, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said.
Forty one areas in Queensland in Australia’s northeast have now been declared natural disaster zones, with the flooded area bigger than France and Germany combined, according to Queensland Premier Anna Bligh.