The ongoing wet weather across south-eastern Australia has shown no signs of abating, with flash and riverine flooding across large regions of New South Wales and Victoria.
In NSW there were 17 flood warnings – eight in the major flood category – across the state on Tuesday. Carlene York, the State Emergency Services commissioner, said the agency was leading “the biggest operations in relation to flood response across NSW in its history”. A natural disaster declaration, affecting 70 local government areas, had been in place since 14 September.
