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Rachael Ward

Aboriginal community at risk of flooding

Community members prepare sandbags in Cummeragunja on the NSW border with Victoria. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A senior leader of an Aboriginal community under threat from severe flooding says more should have been done to help the community prepare and he had to privately source sand for bagging to protect the area.

The Cummeragunja Reserve is situated along the Murray River in NSW on the border with Victoria, near Echuca.

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