New body will lead housing recovery, as recommended in a long-awaited report to be released Wednesday
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It found raising the dam wall could delay the flooding of key infrastructure including the Windsor Bridge by 11 hours.The government’s and agency responses to the flood rescue and recovery across the state have been widely panned – with Resilience NSW found to be bureaucratic and ineffective. The agency – headed by former Rural fire service commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons – has been widely criticised and a seperate inquiry into the floods recommended it be abandoned.In June, Fitzsimmons defended the agency’s work this year but said it was not a “24-hour organisation”.
The reconstruction authority will take responsibility for managing and coordinating the government’s housing and infrastructure recovery in disaster‐affected communities.
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