Emergency food and supplies arrived on March 6 in the town of Coraki, located 30 km south of Lismore, after record floods caused days of isolation for the northern New South Wales community.

Australian Army soldiers helped clear debris and distribute much-needed basic goods for the town, which sits on the confluence of the Richmond and Wilson rivers.

Local media said many of the town’s 1,200 residents had been living in their cars or at the evacuation centre established at Coraki’s highest point, where drinking water was running low.

Plus, New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet said 2,000 homes had been deemed uninhabitable by record floods that had devastated the state.

More than 5,000 Australian Defence Force troops would be deployed to help with the “major” clean-up operation, Perrottet said on March 7.

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