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Australia flood rebuilding may take years: recovery chief


    CANBERRA (Reuters) - Some infrastructure in Australia's flood-hit Queensland state could take years to rebuild, the head of the flood recovery taskforce, Major-General Mick Slater, said on Friday.

    The floods have affected 22 towns and cities across Queensland and disrupted coking-coal supplies, flooded mines and damaged crucial coal rail lines.

    "I think that we will achieve some things in a matter of months. But there are some aspects of the rebuilding of infrastructure that will take, potentially, years," Slater told reporters.

    (Reporting by James Grubel; Editing by Ed Davies)