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NSW and Queensland floods 2022

April 2024

  • Mullumbimby resident Nikki Malone stands at her property with a dog

    Only one person has received grant to elevate home two years after NSW northern rivers floods

    Exclusive: Locals call for government to fund what they say is a $700m shortfall in the resilient homes program

January 2024

  • *** BESTPIX *** Lismore Residents Evacuate As Major Flood Warnings Issued Across NSW Northern Rivers<br>LISMORE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 31: An aerial drone view of houses surrounded by floodwater on March 31, 2022 in Lismore, Australia. Evacuation orders have been issued for towns across the NSW Northern Rivers region, with flash flooding expected as heavy rainfall continues. It is the second major flood event for the region this month. (Photo by Dan Peled/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

    Police to review NSW evacuation centres after report finds women were sexually assaulted in Lismore

  • Flooding in Lismore in February 2022

    Women subjected to violence and sexual assaults resulting in pregnancies after NSW floods, study finds

November 2023

  • Christine Westwood standing in front of her home

    More than 18 months after NSW floods, families with damaged homes are still entangled in bureaucracy

    As the northern rivers approaches two years since the worst floods in recorded history, locals remain incensed over the apparent randomness of government support

October 2023

  • A man looks down the flooded main street of Lismore

    Australia must urgently adapt to extreme weather or face soaring premiums, insurers warn

    Exclusive: Assistant treasurer says insurers warned government ‘you’ve got five years’ to reduce vulnerability to climate crisis

September 2023

  • Noelle Maxwell outside her home in Mullumbimby

    Mullumbimby flood victims feel left behind as Chris Minns flies into Lismore to spruik recovery fund

  • Houses and trees and with hills in the background surrounded by flood waters

    Cyclone Tracy caused $200m of damage. A repeat now would cost $7.4bn, Australian insurers say

August 2023

  • Flood damage in the town of Lismore, NSW. The town was hit by record flooding at the end of February 2022.\

    Washed away: the struggle to make sense of the northern rivers floods, the largest in modern Australian history

    In this photo essay, David Maurice Smith captures the savagery of the floods that hit the NSW northern rivers in February 2022, and the devastating aftermath

June 2023

  • Lismore resident stands in her yard

    ‘We have to get out’: despair returns to Lismore for those left out by flood buyback program

    Many residents in the NSW town are yet to learn what government help – if any – they will get for their damaged homes
  • Aerial view of Lismore flooded

    Buyback offers to reach 1,100 northern NSW homeowners, 500 fewer than hoped by agency boss

    NRRC chief executive David Witherdin says 300 offers already made to flood-affected homeowners
  • Buildings in Lismore, NSW, in February 2022 during the region’s catastrophic floods

    Land for 10,000 northern rivers homes flagged in NSW plan to ease housing crisis

    Exclusive: Houses for 7,800 residents in areas worst hit by 2022 floods proposed in near term, with more development later

March 2023

  • Lismore, NSW, Australia.
Lismore Regional Gallery Director Ashleigh Ralph (aged 33 years) stands for a portrait in the still damaged gallery.  The gallery was so damaged during the floods of 2022 that a nearby pop-up spoace still serves as an interim place to show work.
Lismore was devistated by unprecedented flooding in the early part of 2022 and the commuity is still working to recover.
February 24, 2023.
David Maurice Smith.

    ‘This is the new reality’: a year on from the Lismore floods, the history of the region sits hidden

    The loss and damage to artefacts and art due to natural disasters is leading to a push for governments to do more to protect works

February 2023

  • Lismore, NSW, Australia.
The town of Lismore and the Northern Rivers region were hit with devistating floods for the second time in a month at the end of March (The first flood hit the end of February).
March 31, 2022.
David Maurice Smith/Oculi.

    The never-ending fallout of the northern rivers floods: ‘People are just worn down’

    In February 2022, the first of two catastrophic floods wiped out communities in the NSW northern rivers. A year on, the crisis is nowhere near over

December 2022

  • Eugowra home damaged

    After the floods: Eugowra awaits the insurance payouts that may not come

  • ‘Help yourself’: A community event in the original hub after the Northern Rivers Floods, Wardell Hall, New South Wales.

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

November 2022

  • 'Done sweet stuff-all': Eugowra resident confronts Dominic Perrottet in flood-ravaged town – video

    Eugowra resident Peter Jones confronts New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet, saying SES crews did 'sweet stuff-all' after floods devastated the the town on Monday morning 

  • Mosquito population explosion plagues flood-ravaged NSW – video

    Video shot by farmer and wool classer Nicole Fragar shows mosquito boom after heavy rain and flooding

    • NSW floods: debris crashes into Molong pub in state's central west – video

    • ‘A nervous wait’: parts of regional NSW brace for worst flooding in 70 years

    • Insurance firms must lower premiums as government funds disaster prevention, minister says

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