Queensland Flood Disaster, 16 die in Qld floods, 60 missing

The death toll from Queensland's devastating floods has climbed to 16, Premier Anna Bligh says.

"This morning the search and rescue teams located another woman who was found deceased near Grantham," she told reporters.

Ms Bligh told reporters in Brisbane there were 53 people unaccounted for, including 12 for whom police hold grave fears.

Some communities, such as Theodore in central Queensland, had been evacuated entirely.

The premier said 4436 people are currently living in 50 emergency evacuation centres.

A further 7502 people have registered as being out of their homes.

Ms Bligh said there are many thousands more who have not registered.

She said those people are "very dislocated at the end of this week".

Ms Bligh said Queensland had been overwhelmed by support from other parts of the country.

"It certainly helps to endure an event like this, to know we are not alone," she said.

The premier said the state had ended the week with a determination to begin the process of cleaning up, recovery and rebuilding.

"We are on the job out there right now putting plans in place across three-quarters of our state to recover from this event," she said.

The premier spent much of Friday in the Lockyer Valley town of Grantham, where lives were lost in flash floods.

"What I saw can only compare to a war zone or perhaps a cyclonic hurricane," she said.

"The way that the town has been literally picked up and turned around and deposited in fields and roads is going to be very difficult for people to come home from the evacuation centres and see."

Ms Bligh said the Macintyre River was steady in Goondiwindi, which was good news.

"We no longer hold the concerns for Goondiwindi that we held this morning," she said.

Ms Bligh said water authorities were confident treatment plants had not been affected and water quality could be maintained.

But she urged Brisbane residents to conserve water.

"Now is not the time for us to be using water unless we really need to be," she said.

She said she hoped the Bruce Highway at Rockhampton could be reopened within days to allow supplies through to central and north Queensland towns and cities.

The premier said they'd be a "comprehensive review" of the flood disaster at a later date, but did not go so far as to back Lord Mayor Campbell Newman's call for a judicial review.

It would be held in a "public, transparent way so people can participate and people can understand what has happened", she said.

"I am keen to find answers to some of the questions, particularly about the Toowoomba event, and to get a better understanding of this entire flood experience," she said.

the review would examine "what can we learn from it, what did we do very well, where did we make mistakes, what can we do better next time".

"Wall certainly be giving thought over the coming days to the best mechanism to do that," Ms Bligh said.

"But right now we are still getting basic essentials - clean water, electricity and food - to people.

"Until that job is done that's going to be my number one focus."

Ms Bligh appealed for interstate residents to consider Queensland as a holiday destination.

"One of the best things you can do for us is bring your family to one of the great holiday destinations," she said.