Queensland's Premier says it is not good enough that more accurate forecasting about tsunamis is still two years away.  Peter Beattie has been critical of the lack of information available immediately after the weather bureau issued its tsunami warning yesterday.

The bureau says it should be able to predict by the end of this year where a tsunami will strike, but computer models forecasting the strength of a tsunami are about two years away.  Mr Beattie says he has written to the Prime Minister. "This is life threatening and why should we possibly put people's lives at risk for another two years? That is not good enough," Mr Beattie said.  "If we try and run away and congratulate ourselves rather than facing up to the problem then we do our people of Australia a great disservice, and two years is two years too long."

Source:  ABC Online