Reuters: Flooding rivers and heavy rains cut off towns, stopped mining operations and damaged crops in three Australian states on Tuesday — one week after devastating bushfires swept the country’s southeast killing 200 people. The tropical state of Queensland has been battling major floods since December 2008, with 62 percent of the state underwater, after a series of storms and a tropical cyclone. The damage bill in Queensland is estimated at A$210 million (95.5 million pound) and the …