Liana Boss

Journalist, ABC.
Formerly The Northern Star.
Views are my own etc.

[Dylan Butcher @dylanbutcher_]

#Lismore Mayor Steve Krieg back behind the coffee machine this morning. He lost his home and his business, but continues to be a great voice for our town.

[Liana Boss @LianaAnitra]

@MarianEdmunds @samanthamaiden So many times, I assure you! Even as the PM was walking out of the room.

[Liana Boss @LianaAnitra]

@MarianEdmunds @samanthamaiden A local journo tried to ask this several times. The question wasn’t acknowledged or addressed.

[Liana Boss @LianaAnitra]

@JaneReid5 Kyogle isn’t.

[Liana Boss @LianaAnitra]

PM @ScottMorrisonMP has acknowledged the pain and anger of locals while announcing three Northern Rivers LGAs will get extra support in light of the flood catastrophe. It appears the Tweed, Byron, Ballina and Kyogle areas have been overlooked.
https://t.co/O5sxaGPCFS

[Liana Walker @lianawalker_]

@LianaAnitra was on the ground in Mullumbimby yesterday. Here's her piece on how a town stranded in a telecommunications blackhole are digging themselves out of a flood catastrophe. https://t.co/DBJbwgQCiF

[Liana Boss @LianaAnitra]

People’s lives have been piled up on their front lawns in heartbreaking scenes across Lismore. But they are finding strength as the city starts it fight back.
https://t.co/ImMqUcNnA1

[Liana Boss @LianaAnitra]

The North Coast remains on high alert for further flooding with heavy rain set to last already flood-ravaged towns today.
https://t.co/9xI4PfYqFM

[Rochelle Borton @RochelleBorton]

Heartbroken for the team, students and families from Richmond River High. I was due to fly in today and spend the rest of the week in Lismore. The school is 3 stories high - all under water. Buildings can be repaired, minds might take a little longer. Sending love.

[Liana Boss @LianaAnitra]

Residents of the Ballina area woke to evacuation orders this morning. Evacuation centres set up in the Ballina CBD. https://t.co/vyExnRPbHC

[Liana Boss @LianaAnitra]

The NSW SES has placed all flood-prone areas of the Northern Rivers on high alert with flood evacuation warnings. Evac orders have been issued for numerous towns.

[Liana Boss @LianaAnitra]

Red alert for Rocky Creek Dam, evacuation order for people living below the dam (north of Lismore) https://t.co/vyExnRPbHC

[Liana Boss @LianaAnitra]

As water continues to pour into the Lismore CBD, residents are helping each other flee the floodwater https://t.co/5OMNo4DQqU

[Liana Boss @LianaAnitra]

Authorities say Lismore could see flooding similar to the 1974 levels. Evacuation orders in place for Lismore, low-lying parts of Kyogle, Wiangaree, South Murwillumbah, Condong, low-lying areas of Coraki, Billinudgel, Ocean Shores and surrounds.
https://t.co/vyExnRPbHC

[Liana Boss @LianaAnitra]

@angelicamsilva_ @abcnews Congratulations 🎉

[Northern NSW Local Health District @NNSWLHD]

Sadly today NNSWLHD are reporting the death of one person in their 50s. To 8pm 25 January, there's 1219 confirmed new cases of COVID-19. 878 PCR tests + 341 rapid antigen tests (RAT). There are 40 patients in hospital , with 5 in ICU.

[Queensland Police @QldPolice]

The bond between a police dog and their handler is like no other, and for Senior Constable McGreevy, PD Quizz is a considered part of his family💙🐾
Anyone with information about Quizz’s whereabouts is asked to come forward immediately.

[Liana Boss @LianaAnitra]

Tim took a first PCR test last Wednesday in another town and he's still waiting on the result from that. He's been sleeping in his truck near the border while in limbo, for so long his battery died overnight.

[Liana Boss @LianaAnitra]

At 5am on Christmas morning, Tim Phillips was a long way from home and standing in line for a Covid-19 test in Tweed Heads. This was his second attempt to get across the border to get vital agricultural supplies. https://t.co/IqAIgPXk4y

[Northern NSW Local Health District @NNSWLHD]

There were 166 cases of #COVID19 recorded in Northern NSW to 8pm last night.

10 of these cases are being cared for in hospital, with 3 of these in ICU.

https://t.co/BN9USmzmUm