Hawkesbury Mayor Sara McMahon expresses her frustration and anger with the New South Wales government scrapping plans to raise the Warragamba Dam wall.
“I am absolutely furious; I am really mad with the new state government so quickly into their term rather than coming and having a conversation with our community they have just given up,” she told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
“We have just had five or six terrible floods and nobody’s listening; the new government has decided that all of the data that shows this needs to happen there going to walk away from our community”.
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