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The former premier thinks losing the election in 2023 was the best thing that could have happened to him.

‘Losing was the best thing that ever happened to me’: What Dom Perrottet did next

The state’s youngest ex-premier is relishing a life out of the spotlight but still moves in powerful circles in Washington.

  • Matt Wade

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Fish kill in Ballina waterways in the weeks after Cyclone Alfred.

Mass fish kill chokes waterways in Byron region

The rivers of the NSW North Coast are clogged with thousands of suffocating fish, prawns, eels, and crabs.

  • Angus Dalton
People squatting in homes on Pine St, Lismore, were allegedly harassed by people doing burnouts and throwing fireworks on Saturday night.

Minns accused of ‘fuelling vigilantes’ after Lismore squatters allegedly targeted

Police are investigating after reports a group of people allegedly “performed burnouts, harassed residents and damaged vehicles” on a street in Lismore where Premier Chris Minns promised to evict squatters.

  • Michael McGowan
Harry Freeman says Lismore is “dying” as residents relocate from the city’s most flood-prone areas.

Doug and Alyse spent three years fighting their insurance company. Then the floods came again

“What happens if we keep getting smashed?” Many Lismore residents are considering their future after a near-repeat of flooding three years ago.

  • Riley Walter
Sydney businesses.

The hidden cost smashing NSW businesses

The state’s peak business body warns insurance premiums are spiralling out of control. It’s keeping some people up at night.

  • Matt Wade
Tyson says he and his mother will return to living in their car if they are evicted from the Pine Street property they are living in.

On a flood-ravaged Lismore street, ‘squatters’ take on premier

With nowhere to go, these people turned a street of condemned government-owned homes into a community. Now Chris Minns has vowed to demolish the buildings.

  • Riley Walter
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A rescue operation got under way after an army tanker rolled south of Lismore.

Defence vehicles crash during flood rescue efforts, injuring 13

Thirteen people have been injured after two Australian Defence Force vehicles crashed near the flood-hit town of Lismore in northern NSW.

  • Carrie Fellner
Locals check out the flood levels in Lismore.

For days, Lismore residents have watched the dark skies. Now, they are looking at the river

The cyclone is over, but for some communities, the potential emergency has just begun.

  • Angus Dalton
Big wave spectators almost get washed off the Brunswick Heads rockwall as massive swell and destructive winds hammer the NSW North East as Cyclone Alfred gets closer.

Daredevils brave wild seas as Cyclone Alfred circles toward battered coast

The storm’s overnight doubling back gifted northern NSW locals a brief reprieve, but the message is clear: the time to prepare is almost over.

  • Angus Dalton
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‘Three natural disaster events in one’: Northern NSW braces for Cyclone Alfred

Evacuation centres have been set up, flights cancelled and schools closed as the category 2 storm moves towards land.

  • Riley Walter and Kayla Olaya

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