Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you for the question, Senator Williams, because the parts of New South Wales that were heavily impacted obviously are very familiar to both of us. Several weeks ago, between 20 and 23 April, a large part of the New South Wales coast, from Sydney to the Hunter area, was battered by the most intense East Coast low that we have seen since the storms of the Pasha Bulker in 2007. Severe flooding affected the Hunter Valley. It inundated homes. It isolated communities for days, and it actually claimed the lives of four people.