A State Emergency Operations Centre (SEOC) has been reactivated in the Sydney suburb of Homebush in response to the ongoing flood emergency in New South Wales (NSW). The AEOC acts as a central hub where officers from all NSW Government response agencies can gather under one roof to ensure a coordinated response to the flooding and extreme weather affecting much of the state. This comes as the Northern Rivers region of NSW is experiencing the worst flooding in recorded history, after a slow-moving coastal trough extending from southern Queensland into northern NSW has brought heavy and torrential rain, overtopping the levees of multiple rivers, inundating towns, and leaving thousands of people evacuated. Evacuation orders are in place across the region, although for some areas, leaving is now considered too dangerous, so State Emergency Services (SES) have advised people to move to higher ground. In addition, SES has issued a Severe Weather Warning for Sydney, …