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| Dungog bore the brunt of the storm |
Local Government areas including Maitland, Port Stephens and Dungog have all been listed as natural disaster zones.
NSW Deputy Premier Troy Grant made the announcement this morning, while also promising concessional interest rate loans for small businesses, primary producers and not-for-profit organisations.
Parliamentary Secretary for the Hunter, Scot MacDonald has confirmed that “disaster funding starts to commence straight away.”
“LGA’s will get assistance with clean-up restoring some of that damage to public assets.”
MacDonald emphasised that some areas are in particular need of assistance since they “have been hit twice in one month.”
Image courtesy of Graham Chevalley, RFS via ABC News (LINK).
