Victoria floods
Hail, flash floods: Wild start to summer ahead after tropical storm lashes Melbourne
The first weekend of summer in Victoria will bring heavy rainfall, damaging winds and large hail.
- by Cassandra Morgan
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Weather
‘Remain vigilant’: Severe weather warnings still active across Victoria
Emergency services warned Victorians to remain on alert on Wednesday night after wild weather lashed the state and rain deluged south-east Melbourne.
- by Cassandra Morgan and Gemma Grant
Opinion
General insurance
After 18 months of battling, I’ve lost any faith I once had in our insurance industry
The government’s report slaps our insurance industry over the wrists without enforcing change. For flood-prone areas, that means waiting for 2022 to repeat itself.
- by Kirsty Evans
Payne relief for a town still scarred by devastating floods
The Melbourne Cup tour and one of the race’s most famous winners, Michelle Payne, brought some much-needed joy to the town of Rochester on Friday.
- by Danny Russell
No relief for owners of unsellable homes despite report confirming failures
Residents of a flooded retirement village face being marooned in homes rendered unsellable after a new report confirmed serious planning errors, yet rejected a government buyback scheme.
- by Sophie Aubrey and Clay Lucas
The 2022 floods destroyed the Shepparton Swans’ facilities. The AFL stepped in so they could keep playing
The AFL has poured millions of dollars into local community clubs across the country to help them recover from extreme weather events driven by the impacts of climate change.
- by Marnie Vinall
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Planning
Home owners to pay a combined $1m to find out how much they will be flooded
Melbourne Water told Kensington residents it was up to them to make sense of complex new Maribyrnong River modelling data.
- by Sophie Aubrey and Clay Lucas
Home buyback scheme floated after Kensington Banks labelled flood-prone
Property experts say house prices in the estate could fall by up to 20 per cent following Melbourne Water’s revised modelling for the Maribyrnong River catchment.
- by Sophie Aubrey
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Maribyrnong
Flemington wall worsened Maribyrnong flooding – but it won’t be torn down
The wall raised water levels for at least 240 homes in Maribyrnong during 2022’s downpour, including some homes that likely would have avoided inundation if it had not been built.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Under water and under pressure: The fight to fix flood insurance
As climate change increases the severity and frequency of natural disasters, insurance companies face pressure to improve the handling of their claims.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Aerial images reveal scale of Victorian floods
Record downpours led to flooding in central Victoria that damaged homes, cut roads and swamped farmland. These images show how the wall of brown water changed the landscape.
- by Lachlan Abbott
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