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The Latest Breaking News on Insurance claims reveal Qld's storm damage hotspots

Tornado lifts roofs and causes ‘havoc’ in Auckland two months after cyclone Gabrielle

‘People are heartbroken seeing the condition of their houses and roofs’

The Independent UK

‘A scary scene’: Auckland, still recovering from deadly flooding, hit by tornado

Residents of New Zealand’s largest city say people are ‘heartbroken’ at fresh damage wreaked by storm

The Guardian - AU

Widespread damage expected as cyclone strengthens

A cyclone forming off northern Western Australia is strengthening, with fears it could wash out roads and cause power outages in coming days.

The New Daily

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Strong communities are essential when disaster strikes

Because pro-social behaviour emerges so often after disaster, community empowerment should be central to disaster mitigation and recovery, writes Dr Steve Matthewman

Newsroom.co.nz

My Cyclone Diary: amid the cleanup, the true meaning of home and community emerges

In the third instalment in a series of diaries about Cyclone Gabrielle’s aftermath , Anna Rankin talks to those who are still salvaging their lives

The Guardian - AU

Flood-affected Aucklanders breathe a sigh of rates relief

Although Auckland Council’s big cleanup following this year’s extreme weather events continues, “things are getting more difficult at this point”.

Newsroom.co.nz

Floods, cyclones, thunderstorms: is climate change to blame for New Zealand's summer of extreme weather?

The final months of New Zealand’s summer carried a massive sting, bringing “unprecedented” rainfalls several times over, from widespread flooding in Auckland at the end of January to ex-tropical Cyclone Gabrielle dumping record rains and causing devastating floods across the east coast of the North Island.

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Climate change made New Zealand’s Cyclone Gabrielle flooding ‘four times more common’

“With the world getting even warmer, we will see more and more of events like this,” experts warn

The Independent UK

New Zealand to lift state of emergency after Gabrielle

New Zealand is preparing to lift a state of emergency declared after Cyclone Gabrielle caused deadly floods and landslides across the North Island.

The New Daily

New Zealand to lift state of emergency on Tuesday

New Zealand will move out of a state of emergency on Tuesday as the country starts to recover from damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle last month, Minister for Emergency Management Kieran McAnulty said on Monday.

Reuters

Cyclone aftermath offers popularity boost to new New Zealand PM Chris Hipkins as poll looms

Disaster has given opportunity to show decisive leadership but issues raised by climate change could be a political landmine

The Guardian - AU

The Week in Detail: Manosphere, Bloomfield, and supermarket shelves

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

Newsroom.co.nz

Life in the red-stickered zone needn’t be quite this hard

Muriwai resident Vivienne Elizabeth shares her experience in the profoundly disempowering state of limbo of a red-stickered area.

Newsroom.co.nz

New Zealanders all traced after Cyclone Gabrielle

All New Zealanders have been accounted for after Cyclone Gabrielle and the costs of the disaster are tracking lower than first thought.

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After the cyclone

There's one thing taking the edge off having lost everything in Hawkes Bay, and that's the number of volunteers dropping everything to help. Bonnie Sumner reports from one of the country's hardest-hit regions.

Newsroom.co.nz

New housing law hit by flood backwash

Auckland councillors unanimously vote to seek a delay to a new Labour-National bipartisan housing intensification requirement - with Mayor Wayne Brown saying a refusal could cost national politicians at the election

The Conversation

Why a temporary flood levy on higher earners would be the fairest way to help pay for Cyclone Gabrielle

Cyclone Gabrielle’s trail of misery and destruction presents a major fiscal and political dilemma for the government: how should the country pay for the recovery? Does it borrow now and spread repayment over generations, or raise taxes in an election year?

AAP

Fresh evacuations in Gisborne as NZ's big wet continues

Two regions hardest hit in New Zealand by Cyclone Gabrielle, Hawke's Bay and Gisborne-Tairawhiti, are again under water after fresh flooding.

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New Zealand launches global cyclone appeal

New Zealand's prime minister has announced a one-off national lotto and global fundraising appeal to raise funds for the Cyclone Gabrielle rebuild.

ABC News

New Zealand launches global fundraiser for post-Cyclone Gabrielle reconstruction

An international fundraising appeal is being launched to help pay for the massive reconstruction work needed after Cyclone Gabrielle tore across the country's North Island earlier this month.

Reuters

New Zealand launches global fundraiser for post-cyclone reconstruction

New Zealand will launch an international fundraising appeal for the massive reconstruction work needed after Cyclone Gabrielle tore across the country's north earlier this month, forcing thousands of people into shelters and killing eleven.

Newsroom.co.nz

Is this the end of the Auckland dream?

The costs of Auckland's clean-up will be paid for by generations as insurance costs rise, while land that escaped this time may have been destabilised to terror-filled tipping points for storms to come, write John Morgan and Nicolas Lewis

Reuters

New Zealand police search for 8 people still missing after Cyclone Gabrielle

New Zealand police were searching for eight people still missing after Cyclone Gabrielle struck two weeks ago, authorities said on Sunday, amid warnings of more wild weather for the nation's North Island.

Reuters

Thirteen still missing after Cyclone Gabrielle in New Zealand

The number of people still unaccounted for in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle that battered New Zealand nearly two weeks ago has dropped to 13, authorities said on Saturday, as heavy rain overnight prompted evacuations on the country's North Island.

Newsroom.co.nz

Finding truth and compassion in the wake of disaster

Stories of looting in the aftermath Cyclone Gabrielle may serve to bring people together in response to a perceived common threat. But, as Dr Robert Bartholomew writes, we should be cautious about scapegoating people.

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