‘Well below livable standards’: basic needs not being met one year on from northern NSW floods

Accommodation, power and service connections remain a challenge, local volunteer says

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Nearly a year on from the February 2022 flood event that devastated the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, community organisations say people’s basic needs are still not being met – and the area’s problems are becoming more complex.

In Wardell, south-east of Lismore, Joel Orchard, the co-founder of Wardell Core – the town’s community hub and recovery centre – says people are surviving in conditions “well below livable standards”.

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