Free legal help after Mid North Coast floods

Communities impacted by the mid North Coast floods can seek free help at Recovery Centres established by the NSW Reconstruction Authority in Taree, Kempsey, Wingham, Wauchope and other locations across the region. Solicitors from the Legal Aid NSW Disaster Response Legal Service and the Mid North Coast Legal Centre can help with questions about insurance, tenancy, entitlements to government grants and other disaster related legal issues. To locate a recovery centre near you visit the Service NSW recovery centre finder.

If you can’t make it in to a centre, visit our How we can help section or call the DRLS hotline on 1800 801 529.

Our senior DRLS solicitor Ma'ata Solofoni spoke to the ABC Law report about the types of legal problems our lawyers have been seeing on the ground and how to seek help. NSW flood insurance crisis; Marking 50 years of Australia's Racial Discrimination Act – ABC listen and this was featured on ABC News Day at 02:49 p.m. – Isentia.