Good morning. Flood waters are still rising in towns across three states, with evacuation orders issued in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Meanwhile, a new report exposes the level of poverty in Australia, and Russia has announced it will evacuate the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson.
Areas of Victoria and Tasmania are facing the worst flooding in almost 50 years as communities banded together overnight to evacuate livestock and dig trenches as rivers burst. On Thursday evening people in the towns of Seymour, Carisbrook and Rochester had been ordered to evacuate immediately as flood waters threatened the towns. “It has been raining constantly now for well over 24-hours. There has not been a break in the rain,” one resident in the Goulburn Valley said. The rising Maribyrnong brought flooding to suburban Melbourne, with residents near the river told to leave their homes.
