Independent inquiry into the 2022 floods finds existing agencies failed, and calls for conversion of flood plain land
Dominic PerrottetThe inquiry found several failures and made 28 recommendations for change, which it said were “intended to provide practical, proactive and sustained mechanisms to ensure readiness for and resilience” ahead of future floods.Land buybacks; use of flood plains ‘as assets’
It said the Reconstruction Authority should commence “a phased program to migrate people off the highest-risk areas of the Lismore floodplain, and other Northern Rivers floodplains, through a significantly expanded land swap and voluntary house purchase scheme, with priority given to our most vulnerable community members”.
It recommended the government establish a new NSW police deputy commissioner to take on the state emergency operations controller role to ensure “agencies can resource a catastrophic event”, among other things.
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