Resilience NSW on the chopping block over damning flood report

Samantha HutchinsonNational reporter

Aug 9, 2022 – 6.39pm

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A key NSW disaster agency should be scrapped, according to a damning report into the deadly Northern Rivers floods in March, which found Resilience NSW and the state’s emergency services failed the community and effectively forced residents “to save themselves”.

A report on the NSW Flood Inquiry has condemned the NSW State Emergency Service and Resilience NSW – which is headed by former NSW Australian of the Year Shane Fitzsimmons – for failing to provide leadership and co-ordination during catastrophic flooding in February and March.

Samantha Hutchinson is the AFR's National Reporter. Most recently, she was CBD columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Before that, she covered Victorian and NSW politics and business for The Australian, the AFR and BRW Magazine.