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‘We can’t leave people behind’: frustration and hope mingle in the wake of Lismore’s post-flood renewal
The Guardian Environment
Saturday 17 October 2026, 19:00 UTC
By Jordyn Beazley, photographs by Elise Derwin
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Almost five years after it was devastated by a record-breaking flood, Lismore is a city divided into those rebuilding and those still navigating a way outGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAlison Norris looks admiringly around the simple two-bedroom home that has housed her and her three children for the past nine months. From the outside, it looks like a demountable found at a construction site, bordered by a tidy native garden.
Almost five years after it was devastated by a record-breaking flood, Lismore is a city divided into those rebuilding and those still navigating a way out
Alison Norris looks admiringly around the simple two-bedroom home that has housed her and her three children for the past nine months. From the outside, it looks like a demountable found at a construction site, bordered by a tidy native garden. But it’s more than she has had in the nearly five years since the worst flood in Australia’s history took her family home away.
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