The NSW government is replacing Resilience NSW in response to a recent flood report. 

A scathing report into the 2022 New South Wales floods says agencies including the SES “failed” in the “greatest time of need” and called for the lead recovery agency, Resilience NSW, be abolished.

Thirteen people died in the floods between February and April 2022, over 4,000 properties were deemed uninhabitable and more than 10,000 were left damaged.

Among 21 findings and 37 recommendations from the upper house inquiry, the state government was called on to finalise long-term housing plans for flood-affected residents in places like Lismore. Currently, less than 60 emergency housing pods are being occupied in northern NSW.

The inquiry found response agencies failed to coordinate between themselves and the state government, and that agencies including the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) were not prepared for the scale of the flooding.

Following the report’s release, Resilience NSW commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons stood down.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is set to announce legislation to establish a new emergency body and to have it up and running before the end of the year.