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First flood buyback offers set to be made a year after Northern Rivers catastrophe

The body overseeing the region's flood recovery says the scheme is "oversubscribed", with more than 8,000 applications made for assistance. Although there is an "enormous" amount of work to do, the first offers are set to be made next week.

ABC News · Jan 31, 2023

Lismore remembers German backpacker Simone Strobel following man's arrest

For 17 years, the community of Lismore has grieved the death of a 25-year-old German backpacker many had never met.

ABC News · Jul 27, 2022

‘There’s a cracking’: residents are broken in Lismore after the NSW town is flooded again

People were positive and ‘getting stuff fixed’ after the February inundation but now stoicism has given way to a ‘splintering of confidence and will’, locals say

The Guardian - AU · Mar 30, 2022