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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jonesy and Amanda contacted by Christine, who's

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Speaker 1: just outside of Lismore. She got in touch with through

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Speaker 1: our Facebook page. Christine, your kids and your grandchildren have

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Speaker 1: lost everything?

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, most define I've got two families, got a

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Speaker 2: house full of children all over the place at the moment,

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Speaker 2: on lounges, beds, wherever we can fit them.

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Speaker 1: And so how many is that tell me about what

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Speaker 1: they've lost?

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Speaker 2: Okay, I've got six children here, but I've actually got

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Speaker 2: two families. So I've got eighteen grandchildren. Third of those

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Speaker 2: grandchildren have lost their homes. Now, yeah, so my daughter

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Speaker 2: passed away at the thirtieth of January, my youngest daughter,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, they were put in the care of my

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Speaker 2: middle daughter and the oldest children had their own home

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Speaker 2: down in Lizmore. And both homes have been swamped, one

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Speaker 2: in Ballana and one in Lizmore.

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Speaker 3: Now, wow, it's amazing when you see the pictures of Lismore,

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Speaker 3: how much it's been inundated.

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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. We're just surrounded by water.

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Speaker 1: And when you say they've lost their homes, it's not

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Speaker 1: that they can't be in them at the moment. The

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Speaker 1: houses have been destroyed.

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Speaker 2: Oh, most definitely. Yeah, the water came right up to

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Speaker 2: the roof at the one home completely, and the one

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Speaker 2: in Ballina, it's just the title's just gone straight through

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Speaker 2: the house, so they've lost everything.

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Speaker 1: Wow, you're working at an evacuation center. What kind of

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Speaker 1: stories are people telling you there?

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Speaker 2: Oh, unbelievable stories down there of you know, survival, you know,

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Speaker 2: being stuck on the roofs and being unrescued. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'll go down there every day from eight o'clock till

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Speaker 2: three in the afternoon, just helping out down Uni. And

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Speaker 2: there's people everywhere in all different blocks. So we've got

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Speaker 2: areas where there's dogs, areas where there's people with cats,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, it's bedlam down There's just wall to wall

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Speaker 2: people at the evacuation center.

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Speaker 3: And supplies, groceries and things like that. They'd be pretty

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Speaker 3: hard to come by.

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Speaker 2: Well, I was in a panic because you know, I

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Speaker 2: live here with one of my oldest grandchildren and we

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Speaker 2: had all these other children arrive and I had no food.

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Speaker 2: The shops were stripped, the shelves were stripped, and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: oh my goodness. Luckily yesterday they helped out at the

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Speaker 2: Union They've given me a whole heap of food to

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Speaker 2: help with these children here right.

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Speaker 1: Well, And if people do want to help, I know

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Speaker 1: you can go to Red Cross. There are the Red

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Speaker 1: Cross is coordinating a disaster appeal across both states. Lots

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Speaker 1: of charities you can donate to, and Saint Vincent de

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Speaker 1: Paul's doing their bit too. And I should say, if

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Speaker 1: people really suffering, Lifeline as a tim of professional counselors

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Speaker 1: who can talk you through.

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Speaker 3: Christine, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Jonesy and Amanda's na