October
How insurers failed when flooded customers needed them the most
A parliamentary report has made 86 recommendations to improve claims handling, calling for government intervention to stop new developments on flood plains.
- James Eyers
April
Floods prompt calls to revive dam wall plan
Residents in the Hawkesbury region experiencing their fifth major flood in two years are urging the government to reconsider a plan to raise Warragamba Dam.
- Samantha Hutchinson
200 rescues but NSW floodwaters begin to subside
Queensland escaped forecast heavy storms on Sunday, but there are still dozens of warnings in place along rivers near Sydney.
- Nick Bonyhady
January 2023
Australia’s floods were fourth most costly global disaster in 2022
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) estimates the East Coast floods were the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
- Michael Read
December 2022
Aussie farmers produce record wheat crop amid food crisis fears
They are on track to export $72 billion in agricultural products in 2022-23 despite flood losses and waterlogging that has destroyed and stripped value.
- Brad Thompson
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Letters: Some comfort in the censure
Scott Morrison censure motion; east coast gas reservation; every change isn’t reform; David Pocock’s IR bill role; insurance and climate-induced disasters.
November 2022
East coast floods were Australia’s most expensive natural disaster
Devastating floods that swept NSW and Queensland earlier this year have eclipsed the 1999 Sydney hailstorm as Australia’s most costly weather event.
- Michael Read
‘We’re not moving’: Lismore mayor vows to keep CBD on flood plain
A NSW government inquiry estimated the region’s cleanup bill after the floods would hit $3 billion, but Lismore’s mayor says the bill is approaching $5 billion.
- Samantha Hutchinson
New laws needed to stop building in disaster-prone areas: minister
Australia needs new laws to stop homes being built on floodplains and other disaster-prone areas, says federal Emergency Management Minister Murray Watt.
- Samantha Hutchinson
La Nina, flooding to crunch NSW farm output by 10pc
The value of NSW food and livestock production rose 23 per cent in 2021-22 to a record but recent flooding and continued extreme weather may do more harm than good.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Farmers warn of Christmas cherry shortages after NSW flooding
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet urged the entire state to be on alert for flooding after months of persistent rain which has filled catchments across the state.
- Samantha Hutchinson
NSW rivers hit 70-year peaks, Vic school evacuated in levee fears
Water was lapping behind shops in the NSW town of Forbes on Friday as stressed locals waited for the worst flooding in the central west NSW town in 70 years.
- Jack Gramenz, Luke Costin and Adrian Black
Potato chips, cherries in short supply this season
Woolworths says wet weather has played havoc with availability of fruit and veg, but food prices should ease in the next quarter.
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- Carrie LaFrenz
October 2022
Fruit prices to leap, but ‘not to iceberg lettuce peak’
The floods that ravaged Australia’s east coast could affect the price of fruit by summer and cause up to $5 billion worth of damage to the grain harvest.
- Gus McCubbing
Albanese, Perrottet united on $800m Northern Rivers floods package
Residents devastated by deadly deluges will be able to access land buyback schemes and raise their homes under the state and federal scheme.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Woman dies in NSW as flood warnings continue for eastern states
More than 100 SES warnings are in place across NSW as continued flooding claimed the life of a woman in the state’s central west.
- Gus McCubbing
‘Sandbagging the state’: NSW braces for another big wet
Thousands of NSW residents are bracing for flash flooding with heavy rain and thunderstorms to hit many parts of the state.
- Finbar O'Mallon
Flooding disrupts major Victorian agricultural companies
Loss of power and road access are the biggest challenges as the floodwaters, described as “a slow-moving beast”, hit production and raise the spectre of higher food costs.
- Gus McCubbing
Perrottet warns flash flooding expected with dams, rivers at capacity
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet said several of NSW’s river systems are experiencing major flooding; NSW SES Commissioner Carlene York said the latest floods are not the last, with more expected in the coming weeks and months.
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- Campbell Kwan
September 2022
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- Woolworths Group
How the community helped Lismore bounce back
After the devastating Lismore floods in February, an army of volunteers, residents, and businesses big and small, joined forces to bring the town back from the brink.
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