NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet toured the western NSW township by air on Saturday,saying “there is a long journey ahead once we hit the peak”.
The government says 288 people died on the roads in 2022,up from the low of 275 in 2021,but still below the pre-pandemic average that was nearing one death a day.
Floodwaters in the Darling River are expected to reach 10.7 metres in the town on Saturday,surpassing the highest flood level recorded in the town.
The first time Avinash Ayres stepped inside her 111-year-old wooden house,she knew she wanted to call it home. Now she worries it is under threat.
Andy Cichanowski has been watching the road outside his luxury farm-stay slide downhill for months. Now he’s considering asking guests to helicopter in.
Sydney motorists have been told to brace for rain-damaged roads and significant delays in some areas,especially on Friday.
The state government maintains it is a federal responsibility to provide relief for the region’s private health businesses,and locals are getting worried.
Shane Fitzsimmons informed emotional staff that he had been dumped,and the disaster management body abolished,after criticism over its handling of the NSW floods.
The NSW government will pay $200 million to fund a package of measures including training up local volunteers to help in future disasters.
The bureau was pelted with record rainfall,hundreds of disasters,triple the average number of flood warnings,and then it dropped $220,000 on a name change.
The growing cost of severe weather has groups calling for more to be done to protect Australian lives and property.