NSW convenes first meeting of disaster taskforce ahead of more wet weather

Task Force Hawk formed to address issues raised in an independent inquiry into floods earlier this year

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Emergency agencies will brief a New South Wales government taskforce set up to improve the state's response to disasters on Wednesday as residents brace for more wet weather in the third consecutive La Nina.

The meeting will be the first for Task Force Hawk - the newly formed permanent crisis committee of cabinet ministers and officials from the state's emergency management agencies to learn from mistakes made during the February and March floods.

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