The Lismore Quad

110

Magellan St Lismore

Sat 8 July & Sun

9 July

1pm-5pm Free of the program’s scale back, but their own website states the following:

Much-Needed Support for Northern Rivers Flood Victims…(28 October 2022, Nationals website)

“Around 2,000 homeowners in flood-prone areas of the Northern Rivers of NSW will now be eligible to raise, repair, retrofit, or have their home voluntarily bought back, as part of a new $800 million program.”

The NRRC had also talked about tranche 2 funding as well and we believed that it would be put forward for funding.

No senior public servant would state this unless there were signals from above.

It was also recently reported that Labor cut the recovery funds. There were no funds to cut as the NSW Coalition Government had not done the necessary Budget request work to secure the funds before the state-wide March election.

That is a very brief history of the Resilient Homes fund, not to rake over it, but to give context to the confusion. Confusion though that has caused deep community concern and now it is time to get it fixed, hence the call for tranche 2 and the reset.

It is also time for all the recovery work to be incorporated into the NSW Reconstruction Authority (NRA) that I secured so that we would have a body modelled on the Queensland Reconstruction Authority that operates successfully and in collaboration with their local MPs, councils and communities.

The reset means a very different way of communicating as our communities need and deserve better.

Premier Minns has called me “a fierce advocate who has tirelessly fought for her community” and I will continue to fight for everyone up here.

The Minns Government inherited this trainwreck and despite being in power for just three months, they are backing me in and working to correct things.