Chris Minns vows to remove ‘overseas visitors, tourists, backpackers’ from houses purchased in Lismore buyback
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Squatters living in formerly vacant, water-damaged homes will be forcibly evicted as the clean-up begins from the latest spate of floods in northern New South Wales.
Chris Minns vowed on Tuesday to evict “overseas visitors, tourists, backpackers” who he said were taking advantage of condemned properties left empty after being included in a state buyback scheme for Lismore homes after the 2022 floods.
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