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Why some people are refusing to leave ‘unliveable’ flood-damaged Lismore homes

Squatters say they’re helping relieve the housing affordability crisis – but the NSW reconstruction authority disagrees

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Rhoda Roberts: ‘Dad believed if you changed one person’s mind it would have a ricochet effect’

The Aboriginal journalist, actor and storyteller on her family of Olympians and activists, a terrible loss and the power of persistence

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Climate catastrophe: mapping nation's disaster hotspots

Former emergency services chiefs say it is time to pump serious money into disaster preparedness as a map reveals Australia's disaster hotspots.

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John Cage’s ‘now moments’ inspire Lismore Castle Arts’ group show

Lismore Castle Arts’ ‘Each now, is the time, the space’ takes its title from John Cage, and sees four artists embrace the moment through sculpture and found objects

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Lismore still recovering two years after record flood

Northern Rivers locals say another disaster would wipe towns off the map as they mark two years since thousands of people lost their homes to floods.

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NSW disaster costs may triple unless planning improved

NSW taxpayers could pay nearly triple the current annual cost of natural disasters by 2060 unless a new plan to reduce their impact is followed.

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No plan to get flood victims out of 'temporary' houses

The NSW government reacted swiftly but could not meet demand after unprecedented flooding in 2022 and needs a plan to get people into long-term accommodation.

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Push for airline compensation scheme; NSW flags tougher asbestos penalties – as it happened

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Police to review NSW evacuation centres after report finds women were sexually assaulted in Lismore

‘Disturbing’ University of Newcastle research found some women in emergency shelters during 2022 floods reported sexual assaults and violence

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How a community 'saved itself' after Lismore flood, amid state government failure

Women did 'the bulk of unpaid work' after Northern Rivers floods.

Newcastle Herald

Women subjected to violence and sexual assaults resulting in pregnancies after NSW floods, study finds

Exclusive: Despite the immediate horrors, women have largely led recovery efforts where government has failed, researchers say

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Flood victims face another Christmas of uncertainty

NSW Northern Rivers communities devastated by flooding in 2022 say it could take a decade to recover after progress was hampered by a mismanaged buyback scheme.

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Man dies in hospital following alleged Lismore assault

An 89-year-old man who sustained critical head injuries and multiple fractures after an alleged assault in northern NSW has died in hospital.

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Washed away: the struggle to make sense of the northern rivers floods, the largest in modern Australian history

In this photo essay, David Maurice Smith captures the savagery of the floods that hit the NSW northern rivers in February 2022, and the devastating aftermath

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Uninsured Lismore homes stay mud-caked and unrepaired

Uninsured Lismore residents are being forced to make do with their flood-damaged homes while they wait to hear if financial help will ever arrive.

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Flooded NSW communities feel abandoned by governments

Residents of the flood-hit northern NSW town of Lismore are feeling abandoned by governments following sluggish recovery efforts.

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‘We have to get out’: despair returns to Lismore for those left out by flood buyback program

Many residents in the NSW town are yet to learn what government help – if any – they will get for their damaged homes

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Supermarket shelves were empty for months after the Lismore floods. Here's how to make supply chains more resilient

From the outside, the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales seems idyllic. Rainforests, mountains, beaches and Byron Bay. But the past few years have made life harder for many who live there, with Black Summer bushfires, the COVID pandemic and intense flooding.

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‘More uncertainty’: Lismore mayor blasts cut in homes eligible for flood buyback scheme

Home buyback scheme in the NSW's flood-prone Northern Rivers is creating additional trauma for victims, Lismore mayor says.

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Lismore mayor slams rollout of flood buybacks

Only a handful of households have so far received funding through a Northern Rivers flood buyback scheme, amid calls for the process to be sped up.

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Flood-devastated homes miss out on buyback: advocates

A Lismore community group has criticised the time government has taken to release the maps that effectively ruled homes in or out of help for flood assistance.

ABC News

Inquest into disappearance of Marion Barter resumes in Lismore with new information from overseas witnesses

The mystery surrounding the mother of two's disappearance a quarter of a century ago has captured the attention of millions through the popular podcast The Lady Vanishes.

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Lismore Mayor 'heartbroken' by slow progress of house, land options for flood-affected residents

Northern Rivers residents are frustrated and some are relocating while they wait for either buyback, house raising, or retrofit 14 months after the disaster.

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Why flood-prone Lismore is not a priority for improved flood warning systems

Lismore, the epicentre of Australia's most expensive natural disaster, was not prioritised in this week's federal announcement of $236 million to fund flood warning upgrades.

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Lismore floods aftermath debate asks if land management could slow flow of water

As the painstakingly slow recovery continues for flooded communities across parts of Australia, a land management group says it's possible to take more than 2 metres off the flood peak by slowing the flow of water across the landscape.

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