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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Natasha May

Lismore ice-cream factory ‘will need to stand down 240 people’ unless flood support extended

Lismore houses surrounded by flood waters in March.
Norco chief executive Michael Hampson says the dairy cooperative can’t afford to keep paying 240 staff in Lismore unless flood support is extended. Photograph: Dan Peled/Getty Images

An ice-cream factory will stand down 240 workers in Lismore next month – including 44 who lost their homes in floods earlier this year – unless government support is extended.

Michael Hampson, the chief executive of Norco, the factory operator, said the decision came in the absence of further details of any federal assistance and confirmation the state government would not contribute to any further support package.

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