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Lismore-based theatre company NORPA stages a successful return with a joy-filled production

Australia's only full-time professional regional theatre company has had a horror few years. But cast and crew say they're thrilled to bring a joy-filled new production to the stage for the first time since their hometown was devastated by floods.

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Chemists, GPs consider leaving Lismore

Health service providers in the flood-ravaged Northern Rivers region of NSW are struggling to reinstate services to usual levels, amid calls for more funding.

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Dairy giant Norco to proceed with mass sacking despite $35 million flood support offer for Lismore factory

The dairy giant says hundreds of jobs in its flood-ravaged Lismore factory remain at risk despite being offered more than half the total funding pool in a government grants program.

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‘It beats for its people’: Lismore finds glimmer of hope in grief-stricken community

Love for One Night, a local theatre company’s first show after flooding, is an ode to the rural pub – and the lingering connections formed over a schooner

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Royal love story for Lismore couple whose life together was watched over by the Queen

The Claphams met during the Queen's 1954 visit, and decades later Her Majesty's portrait was the only thing in their home to survive this year's floods.

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No new flood rescue boats in Lismore

New flood rescue boats purchased in the wake of the devastating Lismore floods have not arrived in the flood-prone NSW town.

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Lismore residents and business reflect on six months on from catastrophic floods

The Askey family is happy to be back home in South Lismore and won't be taking up any buy back offers as the town focuses on the positives six months after the flood disaster.

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Lismore flood victims at Northern Rivers Conservatorium receive donated instruments to play new orchestral piece

Hundreds of musical instruments were destroyed when floods ravished the Northern Rivers in NSW in February. But it wasn't enough to silence a group of passionate and talented performers.

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Northern Rivers housing crisis sparks high-rise building debate

With 1,300 people still stuck in emergency accommodation after the region's devastating floods, Lismore's Mayor says 10-storey apartment blocks could be the solution.

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Lismore volunteer warns against plan to equip NSW locals to be first responders in a disaster

Chris Sherring was one of many volunteers in Lismore's Boatie Brigade that saved countless lives when dangerous floodwaters devastated the NSW Northern Rivers. He does not think the community should have to do that again.

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'Long journey' for NSW flood recovery

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has accepted every recommendation in a report into state's response to devastating floods earlier this year.

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46,000 people in Sydney could fail to evacuate in future flood, report says

A report says up to 46,000 people in Sydney could fail to evacuate if flooding comparable to that experienced in Lismore earlier this year struck in the future.

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‘Primed for flooding’: Weather events could spell disaster for Australia’s east coast

Australians on the east coast could be in for months of rainfall and potential flooding following two key announcements by the nation's weather bureau.

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Flood-ravaged communities split amid backlash to temporary pod housing plan

Denise Lowe says opposition from North Coast residents to the installation of the pods in parks makes her feel "less essential than people being able to walk their dog".

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As floodwaters hurtled towards Lismore, several rain and river gauges stopped working

Residents living upstream from Lismore say faults in the rain and river gauge network deprived them of potentially life-saving data as a catastrophic flood hit the New South Wales Northern Rivers in February.

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Parliamentary flood report finds SES and Resilience NSW failed Lismore, northern NSW communities

A NSW parliamentary inquiry is damning in its assessment of the response to major flood events this year, listing a slew of failures by government agencies.

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NSW government told to release flood inquiry report which recommends dismantling Resilience NSW

Shane Fitzsimmons says it's up to the government to make decisions about the findings of an independent report into the state's catastrophic floods, including the recommendation to dismantle the body he leads.

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Success of Koori Mail flood response in Lismore prompts calls for First Nations first responders

When Lismore was hit with its biggest flood in recorded history, national Indigenous newspaper the Koori Mail responded quickly to the needs of the community.

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Symbols of love mask lingering anxiety of flood-hit residents in Lismore

Northern rivers community waits for an independent NSW inquiry’s findings to learn their fate

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Lifeline defends decision to sell donated items intended for Lismore flood victims

This former Lifeline store manager says he resigned in disgust when boxes of donated items were sold instead of being given to flood victims.

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Tobias Moran charged, two arrest warrants issued in relation to murder of backpacker Simone Strobel

Tobias Moran, 42, has been charged with murdering the 25-year-old German backpacker, and NSW Police is working with German authorities in regards to arrest warrants for two persons of interest.

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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.

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Lismore residents with flood-damaged homes still received bills from energy companies

Some customers whose homes were uninhabitable for months were billed based on estimated power usage

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Ex-partner arrested in WA over 2005 death of German backpacker Simone Strobel in Lismore

NSW police to extradite Tobias Friedrich Moran, 42, over death of Strobel who was 25 when she was found dead

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Dead backpacker's partner to be extradited

The boyfriend of German backpacker Simone Strobel, whose body was found near a Lismore caravan park in 2005, will be extradited to NSW from Western Australia.

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