“They’ve provided all necessary powers that we needed,especially whether it’s closing roads,schools or relocating people,” she said.

The declarations would expire on Sunday.

When asked about Mr Morrison’s intention to include Queensland in a national emergency declaration,Ms Palasczcuk said it was too late.

“The time for that national emergency was probably a week ago so we’ve actually gone past that,” she said.

“The floodwaters have gone down.”

But the Prime Minister said it was a misunderstanding.

“The Queensland Premier was,had every opportunity to write to me and ask me to do that a week ago. And she didn’t choose to do that,” he said.

“I think there’s been a bit of a misunderstanding about what the state of emergency declaration entails. It does not impact on the flow of funding and support,or Defence Force assistance or any of those things.”

Mr Morrison said he had since spoken with the Queensland Premier.

“We obviously talked about the state of emergency declaration. I consulted her on that today and I’ll be having a meeting with the Governor-General when I return to Canberra tonight,” he said.

“I’ll see him tomorrow and we’ll be,we’ll be advancing those issues having undertaken the necessary consultations with the Premiers of Queensland and New South Wales.”

In an earlier press conference,the Prime Minister was asked about the ERF and he insisted flood mitigation was “primarily a state responsibility”.

“Why,why do state governments constantly come to the federal government to pay for things that are responsibilities of state government?”

Mr Morrison also introduced dams to the debate,without articulating whether they were solely for water storage or,like Wivenhoe Dam,also used for flood mitigation.

“We have been seeking to get a whole range of dams built in Queensland for the last eight years and we’ve had an enormous amount of frustration to get dams built in this state,” he said.

“We have offered billions and billions for dams here in Queensland and we would love to get on and build those dams.

“We work with all governments around the country but the primary responsibility for these issues rests with the Queensland government.

“Federal funding was allocated across a large number of projects here in Queensland and other states and territories. It was an unlimited fund and priorities were set and decisions were made.”

Mr Morrison said the ERF “wasn’t an unlimited fund and priorities were set and decisions were made”.