Thousands still isolated after record floods in NSW last week

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Communities in New South Wales are cleaning up after the last week's record floods.  Emergency Services Minister Kristy McBain says the government is focused on supporting recovery operations.

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00:00The message from people is clear that the cumulative impact of a number of rain events

00:07over the last few months has absolutely taken its toll.

00:11We've got local businesses and particularly primary producers that have been hit really

00:16hard, obviously a number of damage assessments that have been undertaken and still many

00:22to be undertaken, so we'll get a clearer picture of the overall cost and the overall

00:28damage right across this region as the New South Wales SES completes those assessments.

00:33The focus today is obviously speaking with some primary producers, small businesses and

00:38community members that have been directly impacted.

00:41We've enacted a range of supports as requested by the New South Wales Government, including

00:46ADF search and rescue capability, as well as a range of the disaster recovery funding arrangements

00:52with New South Wales to 19 local government areas.

00:55We've enacted that disaster recovery allowance, which is income support for people whose

01:00employment's been directly impacted for four local government areas, and we've now got

01:07ADF personnel and Disaster Relief Australia personnel that will be on the ground, ramping up to

01:14over 170 people by the end of the week to assist with clean-up, route clearance, welfare checks,

01:22those types of things to assist community as the days go by.

01:27Thank you so much.

01:37That's encouraged to go through.

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