Thousands of people in the Northern Rivers will miss out on a $700 million program set up to help them escape the disaster zone or make their homes safer.
The Lismore floods devastated the local community,and now their stories of recovery are being shared in a photography exhibition at NSW Parliament.
Meet the man who has engineered a commercial and cultural turnaround of an “ultra-conservative” dairy business that hadn’t been profitable in 30 years.
Levels of depression and anxiety symptoms are now higher among Northern Rivers children and young people than the national average
Tired of waiting,Lismore homeowners took matters into their own hands and sold up. Now new owners are not eligible for the scheme designed to save lives.
Meet the people with dreams to make a mark in the world. Only,they chose Lismore to do it.
Some of Lismore’s flood survivors have charted a way out. Some are still cooking on camp stoves in homes without walls. These are their stories.
One year on from a record-breaking disaster that killed four people and left thousands homeless,little has been done to fix the Northern Rivers flood warning system.
A CSIRO research project recommends a comprehensive flood warning network after catastrophic failures during last year’s disaster.
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.
The state government maintains it is a federal responsibility to provide relief for the region’s private health businesses,and locals are getting worried.