Australia was settled over 100 years ago we're not all convicts now, we're pretty much a civilized country... pretty much. We'll be fine, this is Australia, if it's not bush fires, its floods or droughts. Plus I'm here right now and it seems like a normal sunny day, a part from all the blocked roads and the sand bags. Brisbane is a lot better to be in for the floods than to be out in one of the rural towns thats been absolutely wrecked and didn't have any warning time to prepare. Families being drowned and trapped in cars and houses, parents dying to save their children isn't particularly funny.
Hope you don't find ya'self down here in Australia where we will machete ya' and take the three bucks in ya' pocket for being a British Colonialist son of a ditch. just joking but yeah.