Byron bay flooding

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”.