‘We have to get out’: despair returns to Lismore for those left out by flood buyback program

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“I’m not a person who thinks I’m entitled to anything,” Armour says. “But I always felt, due to all this, that we possibly could be eligible for a buyback.”

Armour and her partner couldn’t agree which colour covered their home. She thought yellow; he thought white. But one thing was clear: they weren’t covered by the dark maroon that indicated the highest priority. Almost nothing in South Lismore was dark maroon. Most of the area was “priority 4” and, thus, not being considered for buybacks.

“We have to get out of here, whether we are helped or not,” Armour says. “I don’t think it is safe to live here.” Witham, 71, lives just across the old railway tracks on Kyogle Street in a timber workers cottage she once shared with her daughter and granddaughter. It had a cabin out the back that she rented too, and a lush garden, and was full of vintage paperbacks and cool old records she would sell for a bit of extra cash.

 

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