Hi all and thanks for your concern.
I am from Melbourne and we are not affected - but the north of the state (Victoria) is still very much on alert for flooding and now parts of Queensland are bracing for a cyclone.
Vanuatu Jill - maybe the reason you have not heard from your friends that you have written to in Queensland is that your letters are probably lost and didn't get to their destination, I was speaking to a lady in a Queensland business on Friday and she told me that they have not had any mail for 3 weeks as Queensland lost about 70 post offices and 3 post office clearing centres.