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title: Northern NSW residents again forced to flee floods
description: A new evacuation order has been issued for Lismore in northern New South Wales as authorities predict the town's levee will be breached about 8am.
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# Northern NSW residents again forced to flee floods
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Residents of Lismore's CBD, as well as Lismore Basin, East Lismore and Girards Hill have been urged to leave immediately amid warnings that the town's levee will be breached about 8am this morning.
It comes as the Morrison government hands down yet another federal budget that offers virtually no new spending to tackle the threat of climate change and more new money for climate-damaging fossil fuels.
So it’s no surprise that Australia has yet again found itself ranked among the most recalcitrant nations when it comes to implementing climate change policies, earning a fail-grade in a new assessment by Bloomberg.
[Lismore CBD told to evacuate for second time in 24 hours amid flash flooding](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-30/lismore-cbd-evacuation-alert-amid-flash-flooding/100949874)
A new evacuation order has been issued for Lismore in northern New South Wales as authorities predict the town's levee will be breached about 8am.
[Climate spending cut as Frydenberg delivers empty budget for clean energy and EVs](https://reneweconomy.com.au/climate-spending-cut-as-frydenberg-delivers-empty-budget-for-clean-energy-and-evs/)
The Morrison government has delivered yet another federal budget that offers virtually no new spending to tackle the threat of climate change, and fails to support increased uptake renewable energy or help Australia’s emerging electric vehicle industry.
[Budget ignores climate crisis with $1.3b for gas, hydrogen](https://app.meltwater.com/mwTransition/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.afr.com%2Fcompanies%2Fenergy%2Ffossil-fuel-pipeline-bolstered-with-1-3b-for-gas-hydrogen-20220329-p5a91u&uId=5a778e7a00aa2026a265262c&cId=5a71496272d9dc241933e61d&contextId=624357a5f71daa1c66b2fd36&dId=Nxfq37NyImKhIbuAy_G0nvXLPro&op=open&sentiment=P&isHosted=false&id=3628643&name=Coal%20(Print%20and%20Online)&type=search&transitionToken=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJob3N0bmFtZSI6Ind3dy5hZnIuY29tIn0.0eWs-P9mn8o1sNfbtjIfr9tPiaaq6QkGgqmUmDKo8SwpztpZSmSAIDeh3JALlEDFb331RPa6hzTK1A3JmeMMmA&s=mail-digest)
The Morrison Government will spend $1.3 billion to support new gas projects and supplement the development of hydrogen exports, spending that is likely to facilitate a growing pipeline of climate-damaging fossil fuel projects.
[Australia gets a fail-grade for climate action, falls behind G20 peers](https://reneweconomy.com.au/australia-gets-a-fail-grade-for-climate-action-falls-behind-g20-peers/)
Australia has yet again found itself ranked among the most recalcitrant nations when it comes to implementing climate change policies, earning a fail-grade in a new BloombergNEF assessment that found Australia was one of the few nations that actually went backwards in the last year.
[Mounting opposition to WA government's new Penguin Island tourist centre as bird population dwindles](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-29/penguin-island-discovery-centre-opposition/100946054)
Plans for a new $3.3 million discovery centre on Penguin Island, south of Perth, are on increasingly shaky ground amid concerns the centre will do more harm than good for the island's struggling penguin population.
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