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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tamsin Rose

NSW convenes first meeting of disaster taskforce ahead of more wet weather

Flood waters west of Condong near Murwillumbah, NSW
Flood waters near Murwillumbah. A NSW government taskforce set up to improve the state’s response to disasters is meeting for the first time. Photograph: Jason O’Brien/AAP

Emergency agencies will brief a New South Wales government taskforce set up to improve the state’s response to disasters on Wednesday as residents brace for more wet weather in the third consecutive La Niña.

The meeting will be the first for Task Force Hawk – the newly formed permanent crisis committee of cabinet ministers and officials from the state’s emergency management agencies to learn from mistakes made during the February and March floods.

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