Northern rivers community waits for an independent NSW inquiry’s findings to learn their fate
“Living in the house that you almost died in is quite traumatic,” the 29-year-old locksmith says.“Will we be able to save Lismore? Will we be able to live here any more? Or are we all going to have to move out? There’s a huge history here that I really love. It’s my home town.”findings handed to the NSW premier, Dominic Perrottet, this weekend after an independent inquiry
The report is likely to include future disaster mitigation recommendations, which may propose a land buy-back scheme for businesses and homeowners in the worst-hit spots.“We just need answers. We needed them yesterday. The government needs to pick up the pace. We’re running on empty,” Roth says.“We know that events will occur in the future, but we can’t make the mistakes of the past,” he said during a visit last month.
“To be able to shift [the house] up to a hill somewhere in among a whole bunch of other houses that are similar would be a problem solver,” Wilson says. Rebecca Ryan lost two businesses – a local art shop and a creative workshop – when the water rose above the roof of her building.
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