Kate Lyons

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kate Lyons

The number of Australian journalists hit by law enforcement while covering ongoing immigration protests in Los Angeles has climbed to four, with reporters for Nine, the ABC and the New York Times affected. One incident involved Australian journalist Livia Albeck-Ripka, who works for The New York Times. Albeck-Ripka, now based in LA, said she was hit in the torso by a munition fired by law enforcement while covering the protests.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kate Lyons

Nadia Zarb can already see, and smell, the mould in her art gallery in Taree. The building on Victoria Street was inundated during flooding that hit the Hunter and mid-north coast of New South Wales at the end of May. Water filled the storage space below ground, the art supply store on the ground floor, and the loft exhibition space, reaching to just below Zarb’s home on the top level. Water and mud still lies thick on the lower levels while her property is now filled with spores.

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kate Lyons |Blake Sharp-Wiggins

On Tuesday 20 May, as rain pounded Taree and flood waters rose, eight people wheeled a grand piano on its castors across one of the town’s main streets and into an office block. The piano, worth $20,000, was saved and still sits, nearly two weeks later, in the office with employees working around it. But much of the rest of the stock from Bass ‘N’ Blues Music Megastore – including 180 guitars, 80 amplifiers and $100,000 worth of sheet music – was destroyed.

4 weeks ago | msn.com | Kate Lyons |Blake Sharp-Wiggins

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4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kate Lyons |Blake Sharp-Wiggins

In a large field by the Taree greyhound track stands a huge pile of waterlogged and mud-caked waste, pulled from houses and businesses inundated by last week’s massive floods. Among the mound are couches, fridges and piles and piles of broken furniture. The heap represents the heartache and damage of the floods – people’s treasured possessions, and equipment they used to make their livelihoods.