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A rescue worker paddles an inflatable boat along a flooded residential street.

Coastal Shield: where the $9bn will go

Forty-one flood-risk districts are ranked for early works. We chart where the barriers, pumps and raised levees will go — and when.

10:20

Montlior Newsdesk

National Assembly

Coastal Shield bill clears final vote, sending $9bn to flood defences

Ministers hail a “generational upgrade” to sea walls, pumping stations and river barriers after the longest sitting in the Assembly's modern history. Opposition parties back the plan but demand quarterly spending audits.

08:42

Yuna Karel

Demonstrators hold placards at an outdoor rally, seen from behind.

Coravia

Aldenne farmers ask where Coastal Shield leaves the valley

Inland communities on the flood-prone lower river say the bill's coastal focus risks leaving upstream defences to a later parliament.

16:05

Montlior Newsdesk