Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the Australian Defence Force (ADF) had moved as quickly as possible to help with the floods, but that no level of response was ever going meet the needs of a “1-in-500-year flood” event. In an interview with Nine Network, Morrison said the first response to emergencies always comes from the local community. “It always comes from the community, and then it comes from the SES, and then the ADF comes and supports that,” he said on Sunday. “But on the Monday, after the floods hit on the Sunday night [in Lismore], ADF were winching people off roofs and risking their own lives.” The prime minister and the federal government have been receiving heavy criticism for the slow ADF response from the media. The opposition Labor party also joined the criticism, with Party Leader Anthony Albanese saying that questions around people being left on roofs …