Climate change spat splits Lismore council in flood aftermath

Motion thanking community should not be political' and reference to climate change was piss poor', councillor says

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The Lismore council was gripped by in-fighting on Tuesday night over whether it should make references to climate change" following the flood disaster and an eleventh-hour decision to pause its work on flood mitigation, despite warnings the optics" of doing so were not good".

The disaster-ravaged town is still in the early stages of recovering from an unprecedented 14.37-metre flood, which wiped out thousands of homes and businesses and brought Lismore to its knees.

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