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Heavy rain brought flash flooding to Australia's largest city Sydney on Sunday, prompting rescues and residents to sandbag houses, as authorities warned of bad weather ahead. Emergency authorities received 50 calls for assistance, mostly for sandbagging of properties and help plugging leaking roofs, from residents in Sydney, the capital of…

Heavy rain brought flash flooding to Australia's largest city Sydney on Sunday, prompting rescues and residents to sandbag houses, as authorities warned of bad weather ahead.

An inquest into deadly flooding in Tasmania has been told there was a high level of turmoil and finger pointing within the state emergency service.

An inquest into the death of a woman who died in floodwaters in Tasmania's north-west seven years ago has heard the State Emergency Service's (SES) regional manager for the north-west ignored his colleagues' calls to evacuate the town.

The largest and longest flood response operation on record from the New South Wales State Emergency Service has today come to a welcome end.

The NSW SES has lifted its final flood warning, ending the longest flooding operation in the organisation's history.

It was a mistake to not order the evacuation of a Tasmanian town in the lead-up to deadly flooding, an inquest has been told.

An inquest examining deadly flooding in Tasmania in 2016 has been told the evacuation of one town was messy and rushed because of a lack of preparation.

The man was spotted in trouble 2 kilometres from the lake's shore about 6:30pm on Thursday.