New South Wales (NSW) Premier Chris Minns will meet political leaders from the Northern Rivers in an attempt to clear up a widespread misunderstanding over a flood buyback scheme. Mayors and MPs for the area are pressuring the government to speed up the program, which they say is causing even more distress for those impacted…

More rain forecast for northwest Queensland could elevate already record water levels as residents in the southeast clean up after a wave of thunderstorms. A man was hospitalised in a critical condition after he was struck by lightning at Brendale, north of Brisbane, on Sunday afternoon as thunderstorms rolled across the southeast. In the northwest,…

Communities in the Australian state of New South Wales’s far west are being warned they face “a long journey ahead” following expected record flood peaks. Premier Dominic Perrottet visited Menindee, and Broken Hill on Saturday, lamenting the immense amount of water from the slow-moving disaster will take weeks to recede. The Darling River at Menindee…