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The NSW premier will visit Lismore after the city’s worst ever flood crisis left six people dead and looks set to cost insurers hundreds of millions of dollars.
The cost of the floods in NSW alone is now more than $240m, according to the Insurance Council of Australia, which said estimates from the total number of claims from NSW and Queensland peaked over $1bn on Friday afternoon.
The ICA said it had received 67,537 flood-related claims, 24% from NSW and 76% from south-east Queensland.
Concerns have been raised about the depth of the NSW government’s preparation, resourcing and response to the disastrous floods, with the premier, Dominic Perrottet, acknowledging on Friday it was likely mistakes were made.
Those will be identified when the government conducts its reviews and the premier pledged to “resource every level of government to a level that will provide protection to the people of our state”.
Perrottet, who will visit Lismore on Saturday, announced the emergency services minister, Steph Cook, will soon take on the role of flood recovery minister.
Cook said: “The immense scale of the flooding is unprecedented and we are putting equally unprecedented resources into the significant cleanup and long-term recovery effort.”
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