'Catastrophe on a national scale': Thousands more ADF troops to assist flood-hit communities

Summary

This article by SBS News makes the following points:

• Record flooding has hit parts of NSW and Queensland and left thousands homeless and many businesses ruined.
• There was criticism of a slow ADF response, but many areas were initially impassable until flood-waters subsided.
• Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the government was finalising the first wave of what he described as ‘over and above measures’—disaster funding outside the existing categories of support.
• More than $200 million in disaster recovery payments have already been made.
• Defence Minister Peter Dutton said the devastation was more like that ‘of a cyclone’, than a flood.
• More than 20 people lost their lives in the flooding across NSW and Queensland.

References

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References from the Web:

• MAR 2022 Almost 5000 homes deemed uninhabitable after NSW and Qld floods—AFR
• MAR 2022 As the NSW floods dealt their damage, choppers rescued people from snakebites, landslides and rising water—The Guardian   
• MAR 2022 Understanding the rare weather event that's flooded eastern Australia—ABC

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