Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will join NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet to tour flood-affected parts of Sydney, as the federal government requests 250 Defence personnel to help with the clean-up. Follow live.
has urged residents to respect evacuation orders and to avoid driving through floodwaters.
"If there is an evacuation in place in your area, please get ready to evacuate. If the evacuation order is in place, please leave. Please don't drive through floodwaters. "Currently, we have 108 evacuation orders in place. We have 56 evacuation warnings. That's affecting around 85,000 people across New South Wales. That's up from 50,000 yesterday."
"As I have said, this event is far from over. Please don't have that past experience inform your current behaviour. Please respect the advice from all our wonderful volunteers and personnel who are on the ground keeping people safe."
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