A tale of two cities: hope and despair within Lismore after the flooding

Almost five years after it was devastated by a record-breaking flood, Lismore is a city divided into those rebuilding and those still navigating a way out Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Alison Norris looks admiringly around the simple two-bedroom home that has housed her and her three children for the past nine months.

From the outside, it looks like a demountable found at a construction site, bordered by a tidy native garden.

But it’s more than she has had in the nearly five years since the worst flood in Australia’s history took her family home away.

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