Deputy mayor Jamie Jones | Central Western Daily | August 29, 2023 - video Dailymotion

Cabonne's deputy mayor, Jamie Jones on discussions across flood-hit region being 'above' and 'beyond politics'.

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00:00 So, Kibbutz had over 118 assets destroyed.

00:04 Our communities, our businesses have been inundated with water.

00:10 People's homes have floated away.

00:12 This has to be beyond politics.

00:14 This has to be about helping out our regional communities, five regional communities in

00:19 the heart of the Central West.

00:21 It has to be above politics.

00:23 We don't need further discussions.

00:26 We need money on the table.

00:27 We need money for a resilience homes package, a package that would allow residents and businesses

00:33 to lift power points, to lift homes above flood waters, to opt into a buyback scheme.

00:41 We need a community assistance program or a community assets program, I should say,

00:46 that will allow our communities to have the sporting infrastructure, to have the roads,

00:51 to have the bridges that allows them to live and work in what is a beautiful part of the

00:57 country.

00:58 We have a bridge between Kenowndra and Newgowra that has been washed away twice.

01:02 We need betterment for that.

01:04 We don't need the same thing put back.

01:06 We need improvements made to that.

01:09 We have a football oval in Newgowra.

01:11 The team there haven't been able to train this year because they don't have lights.

01:16 The lights were destroyed.

01:17 We have a bridge here in Mullung that dams water, making a metre instantly once that

01:22 water hits that bridge down here, the railway bridge, it increases by a metre, you know,

01:27 within minutes.

01:29 This has got to be above politics.

01:30 This has got to be about people.

01:32 It's got to be about the businesses.

01:35 And I just hope that we can see some win soon.

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