Category Archives: Australia east coast floods 2021

SA hospitals under ‘extraordinary strain’; Perrottet asks MP to resign after charges – as it happened

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Peter Malinauskas has promised to keep his shirt on from now on, after a photo of his muscled torso made quite a stir in the world of Australian politics.

ABC radio host Patricia Karvelas:

During the campaign, you were photographed shirtless in swimming shorts, and it caused a bit of a stir. I have to ask you ... the Australian’s Greg Sheridan said jokingly on [ABC] Insiders that you’re “far too good looking”. Which I thought was quite a statement. What have you made of the reaction to that picture?

Do you have any idea how much grief I’ve copped around the place as a result of that?

Have they told you just to buff to be premier?

They’ve piled it on, let me tell you. I haven’t stopped copping it, and I deserve every bit of it.

We were announcing a big investment at our major aquatics centre here in South Australia and a whole bunch of us jumped in for a swim in our boardies with our kids there. And, yeah, it got a bit more attention than I anticipated, fair to say.

So you’re going to keep your shirt on from now on?

Damn straight!

I think we’re about to see a federal election where a cost of living is a front and centre issue. And I think Australians get the price of petrol, but they can’t control the price of groceries.

The way we address cost of living as a nation is to start having an incomes policy focus on how we improve working in small businesses to improve the productivity of their labour, so they can earn a higher income. And that’s why education, training and skills is so important.

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Body found on Barrington riverbank believed to be elderly woman missing in NSW floods

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Empty car belonging to Adele Morrison, 78, was pulled from swollen river in March during torrential rain on mid-north coast

A body believed to be an elderly New South Wales woman whose empty car was pulled from flood waters has been found washed up on a riverbank.

Adele Morrison, 78, was last seen at a shopping centre in Gloucester after leaving home in Port Macquarie on 16 March, as a one-in-100-year flood event began on the mid-north NSW coast.

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NSW floods: evacuated Sydney residents told to stay away as water recedes and cleanup begins

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Seven townships around Hawkesbury River remain evacuated as SES warns flood water can contain sewage, debris and dead animals
• How to avoid getting trapped in a submerged car during floods

Evacuation orders remain in place for seven north-west Sydney towns impacted by last week’s flooding as New South Wales’s cleanup effort begins in earnest.

The State Emergency Service said evacuated residents of Pitt Town North, Pitt Town Bottoms, Cornwallis, North Richmond, Agnes Banks, Gronos Point and Freemans Reach should not return until authorities give the all-clear.

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Animal rescue: Gookie the emu gets boat ride to safety from NSW flood waters

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Distressed domestic animals and wildlife, from greyhounds to kangaroos, have been moved to safety during the floods disaster

Paul Zammit’s dinghy became a Noah’s Ark of sorts during the New South Wales floods disaster.

He carried his pet emu, Gookie, to safety – Bodyguard-style – on Tuesday morning.

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