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Australia news live update: Scott Morrison arrives in Lismore as residents protest visit amid NSW floods cleanup; ‘concern’ over Japanese encephalitis outbreak; 31 Covid deaths
Lismore residents protest Scott Morrison’s visit as more flood assistance announced; Victorian health authorities ‘concerned’ at Japanese encephalitis outbreak; more wild weather on the way for NSW with 40,000 still under evacuation orders; toxic blue-green algae detected at two northern NSW dams; nation records at least 31 Covid-related deaths. Follow all the day’s news
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As of 5am Wednesday, the spill rate over the Warragamba Dam wall is 215 gigalitres a day, or about half the peak rate reached yesterday.
The good news is that we have seen the river is falling there. The plan today is that the team will be reviewing what’s happening.
They’re making sure it’s safe to return, and we are hoping during the day we might be able to issue that people can return, with caution … We just need to make sure – we need to check things like electricity, sewerage and the like to make sure it’s safe to return.
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