The venerable weather bureau faces difficult questions about its warnings – and its future. What explains its recent high-profile misses?
The Bureau of Meteorology warned another round of wet and wild storm activity is on the cards for Christmas afternoon and evening as a slow-moving storm cell threatens to bring more flash-flooding.
Thunderstorms stretched 1500 kilometres across eastern Australia on Wednesday afternoon.
When Michael Hampson walked into the ruined ice-cream factory,he knew he faced a mammoth task to rebuild – and that he would be able to do it only with help.
Former police deputy commissioner Dave Owens has said a flood modelling report,which will stop thousands of new homes from being built in Sydney’s west,is “flawed”.
Temporary “pod villages” set up as emergency accommodation could be turned into permanent housing sites,as authorities look to ease the housing crisis.
Minns said he found reports “concerning” that Hawkesbury Council was approving development applications for properties unlikely to receive insurance coverage.
With homes along the Hawkesbury facing serious flood risks and the prospect of not being able to obtain insurance,this council has continued to approve DAs.
Calls for government solutions grow louder as Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley residents smashed by floods now can’t insure their homes.
The federal government is launching an inquiry into how insurers handled the 2022 floods,as families battle insurers months on from the disaster.
Marge Graham’s South Lismore home is unlikely to qualify for a $700 million government buyback scheme to clear dangerous houses from the flood zone.