Nearly 6 months on, flood victims are still waiting to be housed. This is what Australia must do to be ready for the next disaster
- Written by: Mark Maund, WSP Team Lead Regional NSW & ACT / Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
This year’s floods in South-East Queensland and Northern New South Wales devastated communities. The NSW flooding was on “a scale never seen before”. More than 5,000 homes were left uninhabitable. Many residents had nowhere else to go.
The NSW government promised to provide temporary housing in the form of 2,000 modular homes....
