The Latest Breaking News from Lismore

MORNING BRIEFING: Questions are being raised about why northern NSW residents were not given more warning of evacuation after being told they could return home.

Right now, Lismore residents are going through their second major flood in a month.

Major flooding continues at Lismore, Grafton, and Coraki in New South Wales, but waters are receding below Lismore's flood levee and rain is easing in the Northern Rivers.

Lismore is breathing a sigh of relief with river levels receding and forecast heavy rain avoided, as Byron Bay starts its clean-up.

People were positive and ‘getting stuff fixed’ after the February inundation but now stoicism has given way to a ‘splintering of confidence and will’, locals say

Lismore's weary residents are finding it hard to stay optimistic amid the chaos of another natural disaster.

Predicting the weather is notoriously a difficult task, but getting the severe weather forecast right can be even harder, according to Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Neil Bennett.

Heavy rains deluged Australia's east coast on Wednesday, submerging entire towns, while thousands of people fled their homes for the second time within weeks after fast-moving flood waters burst river banks and broke over levees. Several towns in northern New South Wales, already reeling after record floods over a month…

Lismore residents were exhausted and frustrated after the city flooded again but disjointed communication left people underprepared. 

With waters breaching the Lismore levee, the SES has had to defend cancelling an evacuation order late on Tuesday

Heavy rains deluged Australia's east coast on Wednesday, submerging entire towns, while thousands of people fled their homes for the second time within weeks after fast-moving flood waters burst river banks and broke over levees.