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The fury of a superstorm Four lives lost as floodwaters devastate local communities AMELIA PARROTT

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he Hunter region has been left ravaged by a ferocious East Coast low pressure system that many are calling more severe than 2007’s Pasha Bulker storm.

Hundreds of thousands of properties were without power or water for days last week as the State Emergency Service (SES) responded to tens of thousands of calls for assistance, with fallen trees and floodwaters destroying homes and affecting access to arterial roads across the region, resulting in lengthy delays for motorists.

The Hunter was hit hard by the intense system, which caused significant damage from Port Stephens to the Illawarra.

Speaking to the media last Thursday, SES Commissioner Adam Dent said NSW SES had responded to 14,000 requests for assistance in four days.

5,000 of those calls came from the Hunter region, making it the busiest part of the state for the SES. “By way of example, the entire storm season for this year over the period September through to March, NSW SES responded to 19,000 requests for assistance,� Commissioner Dent said. “So in just a few days our members across the state have repeated almost the entire workload of the several months prior.�

As well as responding to thousands of requests for assistance, SES members also performed almost 100 flood rescues in the Hunter.

Testers Hollow was completely inundated by floodwaters RIGHT: A house in washed from its footings at Dungog Images: Supplied Three residents aged in their 70s lost their lives at Dungog on Tuesday when rapidly rising floodwaters inundated the township and swept away four homes close to Myall Creek.

Robyn McDonald, 70, Colin Webb, 79 and Brian Wilson, 72 drowned in flash floodwaters after more than 280mm of rain fell on the area over a 32- hour period, transforming nearby waterways into raging torrents.

On Wednesday morning, 86-year- old Gillieston Heights resident Anne Jarmain lost her life when

the vehicle she was driving was swept into raging floodwaters near Cessnock Road at Maitland.

Bystanders rushed to the aid of the woman, entering the floodwaters and attempting to swim out to the sinking hatchback but they, in turn, had to be rescued.

Police divers searched the murky water for nine hours before they were able to recover the woman’s body from the, by then, fully submerged car, eventually determining its location using specialist sonar equipment brought in from Sydney.

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If there’s a severe storm anywhere in NSW, you can almost guarantee it will make its way to the Hunter region and unleash its fury here.

Something really needs to be done to raise the level of the roads around Gillieston Heights.

I completely understand that the surrounding land is low- lying and water comes from all over the place, but we can’t have communities isolated for days on end.

A week after the water arrived, the road was still battling to be opened to traffic.

Cessnock Road isn’t the easiest road to travel on at the best of times - it gets pretty narrow in certain spots.

I accept that it would be a difficult and expensive fix.

Raising the level of a road is not as simple as it may sound and there is also the problem of where to redirect the floodwaters that would back up on either side if the road was there to block its path.

But Cessnock Road is quite an important thoroughfare.

The traffic coming off the Hunter Expressway at the nearby Heddon Greta exit is directed to use it as the main way of getting to Maitland.

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Review for guidelines The Minister for Health Sussan Ley last week announced a review of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee’s (PBAC) submission guidelines to ensure Australians continue to have affordable and timely access to new medicines and products.

Ms Ley said the guidelines are used by the pharmaceutical industry to prepare submissions to the PBAC so it can assess whether a product should be included on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). Further information on the Guidelines is available on the PBS website www. pbac.pbs.gov.au/

A question was posed in the media last week as to whether we as a nation go over the top with Anzac Day. There are suggestions that commemorations

of the centenary of the landing at Gallipoli were too celebratory and not respectful and solemn enough.

I don’t think this was the case at all last weekend, both here and in Turkey and France.

The services I watched were all very well put together and a fitting tribute to our soldiers.

What I don’t like seeing is people doing things like draping themselves in the Australian flag when they attend services.

Thankfully it doesn’t happen all that often now and I’m sure they don’t mean any offence by it.

It was great to see that many services around the country were reporting their biggest attendances for many years.

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Baird: size and scale shocking Premier visits Hunter region to pledge government’s full support as communities prepare to rebuild AMELIA PARROTT

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remier Mike Baird says he was shocked by the amount of devastation he was met with when visiting the Hunter in the wake of last week’s storm.

Meeting with State Emergency Service (SES) personnel at Metford last Thursday, Mr Baird said it could take months for the region to fully recover.

“You can’t really appreciate the size and the scope of the devastation until you see it firsthand and it is nothing short of devastating,” he said.

“We’ve seen homes, cattle, this whole landscape completely and utterly devastated - floodwaters everywhere and [it will take] a long time until we get this community back on its feet.”

Mr Baird said while the cost of the disaster was yet to be tallied, he anticipated the damage bill to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Upper Hunter MP Michael Johnsen said the path to recovery in Dungog, where four houses were swept away in floodwaters and three elderly residents lost their lives, would be particularly long.

“This is going to be a very tough recovery on an emotional level for the town of

An aerial view over Maitland Image: NSW PolAir Dungog,” he said. “I’m there with you, our wider community is there with you, our emergency service personnel are there with you, and the government’s there with you at both a state and federal level.”

Mr Baird had a similar message for resi-

dents of Dungog. “I don’t think any of us could imagine circumstances where our life is literally washed away, I mean, your personal possessions, all your memories are lost in an instant,” he said.

“That’s something that’s devastating

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“But I think what we’ve shown as a state and nation is that we can come through these events and that’s exactly what we’ll do - we will come through.”

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Floodwaters transform Lambs Valley into a lake

Your pics from the #NewyStorm AMELIA PARROTT

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Floodwaters fill a suburban backyard in Anzac Avenue, Cessnock

A fallen tree causes damage to a car at Raymond Terrace

Floodwaters wash away a large section of earth on Chisholm Road at East Maitland Floodwaters inundate houses on Mary Street at Abermain

The Hunter River reached a peak of 8.9 metres at Maitland on Wednesday

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Communities across the Hunter turn out in support of Anzac Day services

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Residents across the Hunter turned out in their tens of thousands on Saturday to attend services commemorating the Centenary of Anzac.

Residual flooding from last week’s super storm did not stop strong crowds marking 100 years since the landing at Gallipoli.

15,000 residents attended the dawn service at East Maitland, while the isolated community of Gillieston Heights held its own impromptu Anzac Service using sunshade supports at the local playground as a makeshift flagpole to hoist the Australian flag.

Maitland’s traditional dawn service in Maitland Park had to be relocated to Town Hall, and the city’s march was cancelled, but despite this, 1000- strong crowds, which overflowed onto the street, still attended both the dawn and daytime memorial services. More than 40,000 people attended the dawn service at Nobbys Beach, the region’s largest memorial event.

The Cessnock community also turned out in large numbers to support the dawn service as well as a parade slong Vincent St featuring hundreds of local school students.

Newcastle RSL sub- branch president said Ken Fayle said he was “blown away” by the record crowds that filled Camp Shortland and spilled across to the Foreshore Park and Fort Drive. The city’s new Memorial Walk proved popular as Novocastrians flocked to relax and reflect by the coast following memorial services.

The Cessnock dawn service, like all across the Hunter, drew large numbers of people Photos: Rachelle Corcoran

Waste disposal fees waived Maitland and Cessnock residents may dispose at no cost vegetation debris and storm damaged goods, including furniture, carpet, mattresses and spoiled food at Council-operated waste management facility.

Members of the public will be required to provide proof of residence in either Maitland or Cessnock (e.g. drivers licence, rates notice).

Maitland Council’s Manager Development and Environment, David Simm said the offer did not extend to general household waste.

“Council is offering this service to Maitland residents to assist them in clearing their homes and yards of storm damaged items and tree debris,” Mr Simm said.

“There will be many residents who wish to take up this offer so we are asking that people be patient if they have to queue and that they obey all signage and directions from Council staff at the tip face.”

The Maitland waste management facility is located at 100 Mt Vincent Rd, East Maitland.

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A 32-year-old man was charged after allegedly stealing and crashing a police vehicle at Ashtonfield on Sunday.

Just before 10.30am, an off-duty police officer witnessed an alleged domestic incident on South Seas Drive.

It is alleged a woman suffered a laceration to her hand during the incident.

Police were contacted and officers from Central Hunter Local Area Command attended and arrested the woman’s partner.

The man was handcuffed and placed in the rear of a police car while details were taken from the alleged victim.

The man got into the driver’s seat of the police vehicle before driving off while handcuffed.

A short time later he crashed the police vehicle into two parked cars and a car port.

All three cars involved were extensively damaged, while the car port sustained minor damage.

The man was not injured in the crash and was taken to Maitland Police Station before being taken to hospital for observation.

He was later returned to Maitland Police Station and charged with nine offences: common assault (DV), armed with intent, contravene AVO, take & drive conveyance, drive manner dangerous, disqualified driving, escape police custody, reckless wounding (DV) and breach of bail.

He was refused bail and appeared before Maitland Local Court on Monday.

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A Disaster Welfare Information Centre has been set up at Cessnock City Council for residents who are experiencing hardship as a result of the floods.

You can access the service from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday by visiting Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Administration Building, 62-78 Vincent Street, Cessnock or by calling 4991 7649.

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tion for services under the one roof. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are here to help local residents access the right information. We can point them in the right direction and try and give any assistance they might need at this difficult time,â&#x20AC;? Ms Gardiner said.

The service works closely with local providers such as the Red Cross and Samaritans and other agency partners to provide the community with all kinds of support.

The centre can also assist people who may not have had insurance or who need other information about what financial assistance might be available to them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are in the long- term business of helping people get their lives back on track,â&#x20AC;? Ms Gardiner said.

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Wednesday 29 April 2015

Knights needing to get back to basics as losses begin to mount PAUL MONFORTE

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The Knights in action against the Cowboys at Hunter Stadium on Saturday Photo: Newcastle Knights

espite four successive losses, Knights coach Rick Stone is confident his team can return to the form that saw them win four matches to begin the season.

The Knights finished strongly with two tries in the final minutes but fell short in the 26-24 defeat by the North Queensland Cowboys at Hunter Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

“Everyone’s a bit frustrated at the moment.

The effort is pretty good to give ourselves some chances,” Stone said.

“It’s been frustrating the way we have played and we’ve been really disappointed, but we did do some good things today and got ourselves back in the game when the Cowboys looked like they were going to keep clear.

“I’m happy with our resolve. The boys kept fighting back, but invariably we just kept shooting ourselves in the foot at the moment.

“I think the difference between the first four weeks and the last four are that we competed a lot harder defensively and we made up for some of those issues in the first couple of weeks,” he said.

Earlier, Newcastle’s under 20 team were thrashed 56-16 by the Cowboys In the NSW Cup, the Knights defeated Canterbury 20-12 in a match transferred to Morry Breen Oval in Wyong after originally being scheduled for No.1 Sportsground.

The NRL competition takes a break this weekend for representative matches including the Australia/New Zealand Test match in Brisbane on Friday night and the City v Country clash in Wagga on Sunday afternoon.

Nine Knights players will be in action in the various matches. Akuila Uate, James McManus, Jarrod Mullen, Kade Snowden and Tariq Sims will all be part of the Country team; Korbin Sims, Daniel Saifiti and Jacob Saifiti will represent Fiji against Papua New Guinea in Brisbane on Saturday.

Danny Levi has been chosen for the Junior Kiwis against the Junior Kangaroos at Cbus Stadium on the Gold Coast on Saturday.

The Knights’ next match will be against Manly at Brookvale Oval on Sunday, May 10 at 2pm with the under 20s prior to that at 11.45am.

The NSW Cup side will play the North Sydney Bears at No.1 Sportsground on Sunday, May 10 afternoon at 3pm.

A-LEAGUE

Tough times to give way to better season as Jets fight hard against Roar PAUL MONFORTE

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hey may have finished at the bottom of the ladder but Jets coach Phil Stubbins still found plenty of positives in a very tough season for the club.

Newcastle’s A- League campaign came to an end last Friday night with a 2- 1 loss to Brisbane Roar at Suncorp Stadium.

It was a free- flowing affair with the Roar having 23 shots at goal and the Jets 19.

The match was scoreless until the 70th minute when Roar substitute Kofi Danning got the home side on the board.

But the Jets were level seven minutes later when Edson Montano finished off a cross from Travis Cooper.

Lachlan Jackson grabbed the winner for the Roar in the 86th-minute.

As with recent performances, Stubbins said he was again proud of his side’s efforts. “There was a lot riding on the game for us and it’s not a nice feeling finishing where we have,” Stubbins said.

“But the boys had a crack. At the

end of the day, it could have been 6- 6. Our boys did enough to get something out of the game so it’s a little bit disappointing.

“When you want to improve on things there’s times you need to be strong and make decisions.

“There was some angst and a transition but we’ve had some kids that played and brought some pride back to the shirt.”

FINAL A-LEAGUE LADDER: Melbourne Victory 53pts (+25), Sydney FC 50pts (+17), Adelaide United 46pts (+15), Wellington Phoenix 46pts (+10), Melbourne City 35pts (-5), Brisbane 34pts (-1), Perth Glory 50pts (+10), Central Coast Mariners 23pts (- 24), Western Sydney Wanderers 18pts (- 15), Newcastle Jets 17pts (-32).

In the elimination finals Adelaide United take on Brisbane Roar at Adelaide Oval at 7.30pm (AEST) on Friday night and Wellington Phoenix play Melbourne City on Sunday afternoon at 5pm (AEST) at Westpac Stadium. The following week, Melbourne Victory will be up against the lowest-ranked winner from the two elimination finals and Sydney FC play the other winner.

Jets coach Phil Stubbins believes fans will have more to cheer about next season

Photo: Courtesy of Newcastle Jets