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'It all floated out the door': insurers add to trauma

Insurers offered small cash payouts to flood victims and quibbled over minor issues, worsening trauma for people who lost everything, an inquiry has heard.

AAP · May 7, 2024

In rural Australia, everyone knows your business – so it’s harder for victims of violence to get help

Living rurally raises the risk of intimate partner violence for women. The main risk factors are the same as in the city, but there are issues specific to the bush that have to be addressed

The Guardian - AU · May 6, 2024

As regional Australia reels from several women’s deaths, advocates seek both policing and prevention

Half of the 26 women who have been killed so far this year have been in regional parts of the country, highlighting a need for more resourcing outside metropolitan areas

The Guardian - AU · Apr 26, 2024

NSW floods: Condobolin waits behind 3km wall of sandbags as record peak flows west from Forbes

Forbes mayor criticises decision to base recovery team in in Parkes as towns and villages downstream wait days for peak

The Guardian - AU · Nov 19, 2022

Australians rescued from rooftops as floods sweep New South Wales

Eastern Australia is in the grip of a fourth flood crisis this year amid a rare multi-year La Nina weather phenomenon.

Al Jazeera · Nov 15, 2022

Flood-damaged NSW highways could be closed for months, as harvest trucks prepare to test fragile bitumen

There are fears roads in the NSW flood zone could be closed or barely passable for months, as the approaching harvest sends heavy trucks to test already fragile infrastructure.

ABC News · Nov 10, 2022

Supplies dropped off for New South Wales flood victims

Some NSW residents could remain isolated by floods for weeks as the State Emergency Service continues supply drops and support. 

The New Daily · Nov 8, 2022

Towns face isolation as NSW floods persist

There's water everywhere a central western NSW mayor looks, with more still to come, potentially isolating 3500 people in Condobolin.

AAP · Nov 7, 2022