![]() The Northern Rivers Reconstruction Corporation (NRRC), funded by the federal and NSW governments, is currently assessing over 6,000 flood-impacted residences for buyback, raising or retrofit. ![]() Many residents had found premiums unaffordable and had no insurance at all. It was the second-costliest event in the world for insurers in 2022, and the most expensive disaster in Australian history. The northern rivers floods were Australia’s biggest natural disaster since Cyclone Tracy in 1974. That is both in terms of rebuilding in a physical sense and also healing from that traumatic event.” We feel like we are still very much in the middle of it, at the coalface of supporting people. Kerry Pritchard, coordinator of recovery Hub 2484 in Murwillumbah, says: “I guess what is surfacing now is more residual complex trauma. Photograph: David Maurice Smith/Oculi/ Guardian Australia ![]() ‘We feel like we are still very much in the middle of it,’ says Kerry Pritchard, coordinator of recovery Hub 2484 in Murwillumbah.
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