‘Something has to change’: Businesses’ flood horror
Facing their third major flood in under a year, small business owners in Sydney’s southwest are stuck without insurance and unable to move.
NSW floods
Get live updates on the NSW flood emergency, latest evacuations, road closures and weather warnings.
Natural disaster declared as floods devastate NSW
A natural disaster has been declared in dozens of NSW LGAs as thousands of residents in the Hawkesbury and southwest Sydney were evacuated overnight amid the ongoing flood threat.
‘Waiting for the troops’: Wisemans Ferry Bowlo braces for flood
An eerie calm permeated Wisemans Ferry Bowling Club as locals wait to see if the flood levels along the Hawkesbury River would rise above the levels in March.
Swollen Hawkesbury and Georges rivers captured in aerial vision
Police have shared stunning pictures from the air of Sydney’s fourth flooding event in a matter of months. Read the details and see the impact of Sunday’s Sydney’s wet weather and flooding.
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Scott Morrison backflips after Nats MP’s scathing critique
The Prime Minister has agreed to include four more LGAs in emergency flood relief funding after the oversight was declared “deplorable” by a local MP.
$10K ‘back home’ grants for flood victims proposed
A $1.3-4 billion flood recovery package is in the works with victims to receive thousands of dollars to move back home. Here are the details.
Schools to reopen as ‘ghost town’ Lismore soldiers on
Flood-ravaged Lismore has become a ghost town two weeks after the east coast “rain bomb” slammed into the city wreaking devastation.
Flood’s hidden victims: ‘We have no choice but to live in this’
Northern NSW was in the grip of a housing and rental ciris before the floods hit, with Airbnb and soaring rents forcing locals out. Now for these residents in Chinderah on the Tweed River, a nightmare has become a reality.
State Emergency Services rejected Defence Force help
It can be revealed that the Australian Defence Force offered their services to NSW ahead of the deluge that swamped the state only for their offer to be knocked back — twice.
Everyday heroes disobeyed orders to save their neighbours
Stranded flood victims are alive today because everyday people such as Ballina bar manager Jason Ross ignored their own safety and headed into the danger zone to rescue them.
‘Your body wears out’: Flood victims developing anxiety
With their livelihoods washed away in murky water, some victims of NSW’s flood disaster are experiencing anxiety and mental distress for the first time in their lives.
How Queenslanders could save NSW’s flood-prone towns
An urgent and wide-ranging review will investigate how to stop another disastrous flood wiping out riverside communities, and “put an end to ad hoc policy”.
‘I was going to die’: Five harrowing flood survival stories
Huddled in the roof of his house, Mitch Moore felt like he was on the Titanic: ‘the ship is sinking and there’s nowhere to go’. Read the stories from Lismore.
Home ‘pulverised’ in landslide: ‘I don’t know how I got out’
Jens Forrest tells of his amazing escape after his home near Byron Bay toppled in a landslide during the NSW flood diaster. See the incredible video showing where his home ended up.
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