Save Our River Towns
HELP FLOOD VICTIMS
USE YOUR VOTE
8,000 LOCALS VOTING AS 1
CAN DECIDE WHO IS ELECTED
Sign up here to help us lobby for a new deal for our flood victims. We need 8000 registered voters to sign up by 30 April 2022. Why? Because 8000 votes directed to any candidate will determine who will represent our electorate at the upcoming Federal election. Help us encourage all Federal Government candidates to announce new improved flood assistance packages for our flood victims before the election.
Our community has helped each other more than ever before. But we want to do a lot more than just clean up after catastrophic floods. To get meaningful assistance and real action for our community we need you to be a part of our lobby group and to encourage others to join. Ask your family and mates to help again. There’s no cost to joining in.
Did the new M1 Highway act as a levy bank that contributed to flood victims’ losses? We have instructed our lawyers to investigate this issue. If our lobbying doesn’t work and a viable class action exists, we want to determine how many people will assist and/or join the proposed class action litigation. Joining this class action is optional and separate to joining our lobby group. Any litigation will be on the basis there’s no cost to those who join.
We are a single issue, nonpolitical, unsubsidised grassroots community lobby group trying to help the flood victims/survivors. We meet each other at a Woodburn community meeting on 11 April 2022. We formed the lobby group in the pub after the meeting.
The group's steering committee is:
Matt and Kylie O'Reilly, Georgia Spencer, Kobi Reilly, Lyndall Murray, Sunae Reilly, Vanessa Allport and Nick Crouch.
You are welcome to contact any or all of us via our SORT email address.
There's no boss, although Matt and Kylie oversee all operations. You can reach Matt on 0414 062308 or Kylie on 0404 067797. Vanessa and Lyndall organise media campaigns. You can reach Lyndall on 0415 055514. Nick is in charge of the proposed class action litigation. Nick can be reached on 0411 274545.
Nick Crouch is a liquidator and successfully helped 8000 Ansett employees lobby the government to pay their employee entitlements when that airline failed immediately before a federal election. SORT will use that same strategy to help the flood victims and survivors.
Our focus is entirely on political lobbying for more assistance. We will revert to the class action litigation option only if the lobbying fails.
SORT needs team leaders for each town to run our lobby group in each town affected by the flood.
Members can run our lobby group in whatever way they think will raise our membership to 8000 members before the end of the month. Most flood victims don't know we exist.
We need your help to help the flood victims and survivors.
We need volunteers from each town coordinate the membership drive in their local town. The main objective is to get in touch with other locals affected by the flood. It might be you if you are up for it or nominate someone else who would be. Either way please reach out to Nick Crouch directly at nick@crouch.com.au who is organising this town leaders initiative. And yes there can be more than one.
We don’t have town leaders yet so it is up to you get together and help SORT move forward with its membership drive. Currently, we have over 600 members, but to have real political power we need to grow this number significantly.
And if you cannot help us with finding town leaders we still need you! Help us find as many more members as possible in the next few days by doing the following:
There are no rules, do whatever works in your town.
If you are using Facebook or Instagram please post about SORT with a link back to us. As a suggestion, use the following message:
Please help promote the lobby group Save Our River Towns (SORT). We are trying to get more money for the flood victims and our community. Please go to www.sort.org.au and register your details. It's free
If the Save Our River Town team can get 8000 locals to vote as one, we might be able to get more government funding for our flood victims. For clarity, lobbying for political assistance is our entire focus.
The proposed class action described above is on hold until we have the member numbers required.
This "political" strategy is, without doubt, the quickest way to help the flood victims who are in such desperate need.
Please download these PDFs of our flyers.
Then you can print and distribute and/or email to others you know that have been affected by the floods.
At the last Federal elections, the electorates of Page (Casino, Lismore, Evans Head, Grafton and Iluka) and Richmond (Ballina, Byron Bay and Tweed Heads) had 113,000 and 108,000 registered voters respectively.
Page saw the Nationals Mr Kevin Hogan receive 49% of the primary vote and retain the seat with a 7% margin. If 8000 voters pick a party that offers the best “new deal” for flood victims, the seat could swing to the greens, labour or a popular independent.
Richmond was won by Labour’s Justine Elliot with 31% of the primary vote with a 0.1% margin. If 1000 voters pick a party that offers the best “new deal” for flood victims, the seat could swing to the greens (20% of primary vote) or liberals (36% of primary vote) or to a popular independent.
ABC News
There are questions about whether a multi-billion dollar highway may have prolonged flooding in the north of New South Wales. Bruce Mackenzie reports.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-12/northern-nsw-residents-say-pacific-highway-acted/13838194
ABC News
Hundreds of flood-affected residents on the NSW north coast are threatening to sue the state and federal governments over concerns the new Pacific Highway made the recent floods worse by acting as a "dam wall".
The Sunday Project
Flood ravaged communities in northern NSW are blaming one of Australia’s largest infrastructure projects for making the recent flood disaster last longer and cause more damage. Farmers and locals warned it was going to happen and say they were ignored.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u8bMSw8yr0
INDYNR
Did the new highway make the floods worse? Transport authorities respond, residents seek class action
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