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Lismore, the epicentre of Australia's most expensive natural disaster, was not prioritised in this week's federal announcement of $236 million to fund flood warning upgrades.
Locals in Australia’s most flood-ravaged community are demanding an investigation into water security in northern New South Wales as the region continues to be battered by deadly floods and drought.
Inundated by record flood levels and swamped by bureaucracy, Lismore’s despairing citizens have seen their last drop of patience evaporate.
It has experienced more than 130 floods over the last 150 years but Lismore was left off a priority list to receive grants designed to improve its resilience to disasters such as the current flood crisis.