Ballina CBD loses power and internet as high tide causes ‘havoc’; drivers still stranded on M1; a woman has died in the devastating Lismore floods, the second in the city; 145,000 disaster payment applications have so far been made; Victoria records 28 Covid deaths, NSW records five. Follow all the day’s news
- Ballina flood: wall of water racing to town amid warning NSW conditions remain ‘very dangerous’
- East coast low menaces Sydney and vast stretch of NSW coast with ‘life-threatening’ flash flooding forecast
- Labor questions whether Peter Dutton’s fundraiser breaches Queensland laws
- Disaster agency defends not listing Lismore as flooding priority area for funding
- Scott Morrison tests positive to Covid with ‘flu-like symptoms’
- Lismore counts the devastation as Ballina braces for its worst flood in history
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My colleagues Josh Butler and Sarah Martin have an interesting story this morning on how the Australian anti-vaxxer groups are pivoting to pro-Putin messaging and Ukraine conspiracy theories.
Here’s a bit more on the second death in Lismore, via AAP.
