Hundreds of drenched and terrified Lismore residents clung to their roofs amid record-high floodwaters overnight as emergency services raced until nightfall to rescue as many people as possible. 

The head of Sydney’s Mardi Gras festival has slammed plans for a permanent cycleway along Oxford Street, saying the nuisance path presented a threat to the future of the city’s iconic gay and lesbian pride parade. 

World leaders have savaged Vladimir Putin’s terrifying nuclear threat, questioning his sanity and calling him a megalomaniac as they warn it could cause a disastrous “miscalculation” in the Ukraine crisis.

And in sport, the NRL will interview the key players in the NSW Rugby League stoush after the ARL Commission fielded a formal complaint on Monday afternoon – only hours after revealing it would emerge from Covid in better financial shape than when the pandemic began.

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