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I’ve moved back home to Lismore just in time for the third La Niña. The sound of rain brings dread

We’re holding off getting a couch till the wet season passes – I’ve lost far too much velvet to the Wilson River. Living in a flood plain means not ever fully resting

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Archbishop of Canterbury to visit flood-affected Lismore during rare visit to Australia

Along with a stop in Lismore, Justin Welby's two-week trip will also include visits to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and the Torres Strait Islands.

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With another La Niña under way, experts warn Australia’s east coast remains at high risk

If the latest event brings flooding, it will be the fourth NSW summer in a row marked by natural disaster; in Queensland, the fifth

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Norco stands down 170 workers at flood-damaged ice cream factory in South Lismore

With 170 out of work today, unions are urging the Norco dairy co-operative to "put some skin in the game" and use its own money to ensure the future of the factory.

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NSW towns 'on edge' amid 30 flood warnings

Flood warnings have been issued for river catchments across NSW and southern Queensland as a storm system leaves damaged crops and ruined roads in its wake.

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Rare footage of Queen Elizabeth's 1954 visit to Lismore finally screened

A 16-millimetre film was rediscovered by staff at the Richmond River Historical Society as they cleaned and stored their wares in the wake of this year's catastrophic floods.

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NSW set for 'very long season' of rain as flood warnings return to Lismore

Today is the start of a 'very long season' of rain and severe weather, NSW's resilience minister says, as the weary Northern Rivers region braces for more floods.

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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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