One frantic hour: the race to save the Koori Mail from rapidly rising flood waters

The clean-up after flood damage to the Koori Mail office in Lismore. Photographs: the Koori Mail Photograph: Koori Mail

It was midnight, hours before the floods hit Lismore, and Naomi Moran was in the Koori Mail’s office, working frantically to save an Indigenous institution.

The newspaper’s three-storey building, perched perilously close to the swelling Wilsons River, was expected to be flooded, just as it was in 2017.