Annastacia Palaszczuk

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QLD schools closure announcement prompts apology from ... (7NEWS.com.au)

Annastacia Palaszczuk apologises to parents after schools closed in southeast Queensland ... Parents had been asked to pick up their children after predictions of ...

They have no ability to take on and absorb any water. All of our catchments, creeks and rivers are what we call saturated. “At the end of the day, you can only act on the advice you are given and that advice given to me and to the senior management staff was that it was going to be very, very severe under storms and hail yesterday. “The key message from the Bureau of Meteorology today is that we are expecting to see showers and storms around the southeast developing late in the morning and moving into the afternoon,” she said. “Can I say to all of the parents in the southeast, that I apologise for the inconvenience,” Ms Palaszczuk said. Parents were urged to pick up their children and schools were closed to all but the children of essential workers on Friday after predictions of “potentially life-threatening” weather in flood-ravaged areas.

Annastacia Palaszczuk asks kids be picked up early from school in ... (Daily Mail)

Frustrated parents have slammed the Queensland Premier for 'mixed messaging' when calling for children to be picked up from school early as the flood crisis ...

'Across ALL of south east Queensland, schools that can safely open tomorrow will. A number of schools due to open also remained closed in the Brisbane region after the storms arrived early on Thursday. Hail measuring up to six centimetres hit towns in the Sunshine Coast hinterland in the early hours of Thursday. Not every school in SE Queensland is affected by flooding,' another agreed. 'I think there was a blunder today! Flooding in the inner Brisbane suburb of Auchenflower after the latest storms to hit the city Hail measuring up to six centimetres hit towns in the Sunshine Coast hinterland in the early hours of Thursday. Southeast region includes schools in the northern Moreton Bay region, Sunshine Coast, Gympie and Wide Bay up to Bundaberg. Ms Palaszczuk urged parents to pick up their children from schools from the northern Moreton Bay region, Sunshine Coast, Gympie, Wide Bay up to Bundaberg region due as weather conditions deteriorated (pictured, flood conditions in northern NSW) Earlier on Thursday, Ms Palaszczuk urged parents to pick up their children from schools from the northern Moreton Bay region, Sunshine Coast, Gympie, Wide Bay up to Bundaberg region due as weather conditions deteriorated. He called on the premier to 'speak directly to Queenslanders' in order to provide clarity on which schools children needed to be picked up from early. He called on the premier to hold another conference to 'clean up this mess' and slammed the pick-up chaos as a 'complete fail of leadership'.

Palaszczuk's apology to parents after closing schools across Qld's ... (Sky News Australia)

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has issued an apology to parents after thousands of children were unable to turn up to school on Friday.

Any water that does fall from showers or storms today could lead, still, to flash flooding." It's a return to what we would typically describe as a more normal storm situation. Thankfully that did not eventuate." All of our catchments, creeks and rivers are what we call saturated. New to Flash? Try 1 month free now Annastacia Palaszczuk has apologised to parents for "the inconvenience" of closing schools on Friday over the threat of severe storms but said anyone "in my shoes" would have made the same decision.

Anna's apology over flood advice chaos (NEWS.com.au)

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has apologised to parents for closing schools when threatening storms did not hit the southeast, saying she was ...

“You can’t have a situation where there are mixed messages... “But safety has to come first. Ms Palaszczuk said parents in the Moreton Bay region, Sunshine Coast, Gympie, Wide Bay and north to Bundaberg should pick their children up from school as soon as was safe to do so.

Severe storms bring heavy rain to flood-affected parts of south-east ... (ABC News)

Storms bring lightning and torrential rain to parts of south-east Queensland already devastated by flooding, with the Bureau of Meteorology warning unstable ...

"We've experienced over 80 millimetres of rainwater in the Grantham catchment this morning. "There's 190 suburbs in Brisbane and every single one of them was impacted," Mr Schrinner said. "The difference between this disaster and the 2011 one is very stark, and it's just all of that creek flooding as well as that river flooding," Mr Schrinner told ABC Radio Brisbane. While the BOM did not record overwhelmingly strong winds in the region, Ms Wong said trees that were sodden from days of heavy rainfall and floodwaters were prone to falling more easily. As a result of that, we are taking a precautionary measure to sound the evacuation siren," Mr Chelepy said. Brisbane Mayor Adrian Schrinner today deemed the recent flooding disaster bigger "in many ways" and more widespread than 2011, with some affected suburbs flooding again this morning.

Qld weather: 'I'm sorry': Premier apologises for shutting schools after storms fail to eventuate (Courier Mail)

Annastacia Palaszczuk has apologised for inconveniencing southeast Queensland residents by ordering schools to close and urging people to stay at home after severe storms failed to eventuate. It comes as the floods have claimed a 10th life.