The death toll in the Queensland floods rises.

A woman's body has been recovered from a house in Queensland's Lockyer Valley bringing the Australian flood death toll to 17.

Her body was found during a third search of a house in Grantham while 14 people remain missing.

Communities across Western Victoria are preparing for flooding as rivers and creeks continue to slowly rise.

So far at least 29 towns have been swamped and more than 13-thousand homes inundated

The clean-up continues across the north part of Australia's island state of Tasmania, after major flooding there also.

At least five hundred people who were forced to evacuate their homes during flooding in north western New South Wales, are heading home. (From ABC News)