Brisbane flood clean-up under way – in pictures

Helen and Trevor Goschnick mop out their Fernvale home, 40km south-west of Brisbane Photograph: Eddie Safarik/AFP/Getty Images

An emotional Jacky Greenwood is comforted by Jason Amos outside her 83-year-old mother Irene Comstive's home in the suburb of Rosalie, Brisbane Photograph: Dean Lewins/EPA

A man sweeps mud out of a flood-damaged workshop in Brisbane Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters

A volunteer helps clean the kitchen of a property damaged by floodwaters in Brisbane Photograph: Jonathan Wood/Getty Images

Residents and volunteers clear away sludge in the Brisbane suburb of West End Photograph: Eddie Safarik/AFP/Getty Images

The floodwaters recede from a carpark in the Brisbane suburb of Rocklea Photograph: Dave Hunt/EPA

A man adds to a pile of debris on the edge of a street as he cleans a flood-damaged house in West End, Brisbane Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters

The high water mark inside a house in Rosalie, Brisbane Photograph: Dean Lewins/EPA

A man removes sandbags from the entrance to a flood-damaged warehouse in Brisbane Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters

Two men stand in the entrance of a flooded Brisbane car repair workshop Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters