The March 2021 Australian floods are a series of ongoing floods that began from 18 March 2021[6] which have affected the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), from the North Coast to the Sydney metropolitan area in the south, in a disaster described by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian as a "one-in-100-year event", in addition to being the most significant flood event in 60 years in parts of the state.[7] Additionally, far-south and far-south-east communities in Queensland were also greatly affected by flooding and heavy rainfall, although to a lesser extent than those observed in New South Wales.