In context of  cattle deaths and flooding west of Townsville the Qld Premier says there has been a 7 or 8 year drought.
Starting out with a BoM map showing main Qld catchments.  We will look through various rain and drought maps and check on the Premier's claim.
Actual rain totals 1 Jan 19 to 10 Feb 19 showing most rain causing floods was north of the Hughenden - Winton - Mt Isa line
Here is the 2011 drought map and it seems there was no drought in Australia that year - which is year 1 of 8  for the Premier.
In 2012 there was only a very small area of  Qld drought on Cape York
In 2013 sizeable areas of Western Qld were in drought.
In 2014 only very minor areas west of Townsville were in drought.  Plus a few minor areas in SE Qld which is not our subject region.
In 2015 Qld had minor areas in drought but not in our subject region.
In 2016 there were minor areas of drought in the far north and SE of Qld - but no drought in our subject area.
In 2017 there were minor areas of drought is SW Qld but south of our subject area.
In 2018 the SW Qld drought increased in area joing to NSW and SA areas -   and there was a minute area of drought NW of Mt Isa  in our subject area.