Byron Bay

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Paradise underwater: the floods that caught Byron Bay off-guard (The Guardian)

Locals in the NSW town shocked by floods, but are now turning their attention to climate action.

“The bakery was open, babies were in prams, people were walking their dogs,” she says. Swivel speaks of anger and frustration about the emergency warnings. “The water gets captured in Byron like in a wok.” “We can keep focusing on the awfulness and the tragedy – or we can start to understand what is actually happening here,” he says. Then he drove a friend home at about 10.30pm. Swivel says there was sense it was going to be “a wet and tricky” night, but there would “be no real drama”.

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Australian beach town of Byron Bay inundated by floodwaters (Manila Bulletin)

SYDNEY, Australia — The Australian coastal enclave of Byron Bay, known for its celebrity residents and idyllic beaches, was inundated by floodwaters ...

I think that’s just an obvious fact,” he said at the time. During a visit to Lismore in the aftermath of last month’s floods, Australia’s prime minister Scott Morrison said the country was “getting hard to live in because of these disasters”. “It’s becoming almost impossible to live here,” she said, fearing “a mental health crisis” in the wake of these rolling disasters.

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