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SES warns of flash flooding, overflowing rivers and coastal erosion with torrential rain forecast across the Illawarra, South Coast and Southern Highlands until Tuesday.

The severe weather hitting NSW is expected to deteriorate over the next 24 to 48 hours, bringing strong winds, sea swells and flash flooding, as residents in the Hawkesbury-Nepean area are warned to prepare to evacuate.

The Northern Rivers and south-east Queensland are expected avoid the heaviest falls, but residents in other areas are being urged to prepare as the weather system bears down from the north.

Good morning, early birds. In February the NSW State Emergency Service was reportedly warned the day before that the Lismore flooding could be about to get much worse but did not alert the public, and a Morrison-era scheme to bring 2000 doctors and nurses to Australia has seen just 24…

Volunteers from South Australia's State Emergency Service adapt their equipment to rescue two dogs found down an opal mining shaft in the state's outback.

Only about 20% of businesses have reopened and many have exhausted their savings trying to repair properties

Amid revelations that just a fraction of available relief funds have gone to victims of this year's flood emergencies, the head of the state's parliamentary inquiry loses patience with key organisations on the last day of public hearings.

The commissioners of Resilience NSW and the SES have used a parliamentary inquiry to push back on criticism of their flood response earlier in the year.

A parliamentary inquiry is told control over major disaster responses should be handed to paid professionals, such as Fire and Rescue NSW, rather than the volunteer-driven State Emergency Service.